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Originally Posted by Blue_Runner
It helps if you turn 1/2 into a decimal. Or at least that is what I did.
1/2 = .5
30 / .5 = 60
60 + 10 = 70
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Blue, you're exactly correct. What threw me though was something so simple as to be easily overlooked. Ferm actually hit the nail on the head. It was the / symbol. (Divide Divide = Multiply) The / symbol on a computer is or can be used as a divide symbol, since the divide sign that is on a calculator isn't on a computer keyboard. Since I rarely, if ever, use a computer for doing math, I simply forgot that / is divide and * is multiply on a computer keyboard. I completely missed the inversion.
(Truthfully, I think the question could have been written a little better, but the whole idea of this test is to trick us up, so I guess how they wrote it is fair)
And yes RW, sometimes I lose my mind. I usually find it again in a day or so.
(When I don't understand something is just bugs the hell outta me until I find the answer. I'm a night owl by habit, my normal bedtime is around 2am.. so at 1:15am I was just starting to get sleepy).
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