Мастер wrote:If it's addition, I say 4,100.
If it's something else, then I'm not sure what that something else is.
Lance wrote:These are always trick questions, that's the point. In this one, it's easy to carry the '1' from the 10's column and it to the 1000's column. The most common answer given is 5,000. I actually made the same mistake the first time I saw it.
Мастер wrote:I was pretty seriously close to making that error.
Dragon Star wrote:...
If my Algebra 2 teach wrote this and said "solve":
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I can guarantee not everyone would use addition, .....
tubeswell wrote:Dragon Star wrote:...
If my Algebra 2 teach wrote this and said "solve":
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I can guarantee not everyone would use addition, .....
I think I remember some math convention learned many moons ago in my now hazy youth, whereupon if there isn't a function symbol, you should multiply. But this has become somewhat arcane knowledge for me.
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