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Old Apr 15th, 2004, 10:46 PM        Do the Garbage Pail Kids hate Canadians?
I was looking, and I just saw this.



I'm not Canadian, but it make me think that the makers did.
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Old Apr 15th, 2004, 10:58 PM       
125...
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Old Apr 15th, 2004, 11:04 PM       
Drev,

Thank you for bringing up a point that I brought up last Halloween. Your valuable contribution to this message board has been noted.

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Old Apr 15th, 2004, 11:14 PM       
......oh.

I remember reading that, but I forgot about the match part.

Sorry.

Still discuss.
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Old Apr 15th, 2004, 11:20 PM       
Some guy on soulseek called me a snow ****** because he found out I was Canadian
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Old Apr 16th, 2004, 04:38 AM       
Hmmm, now I just don't get that one.
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Old Apr 16th, 2004, 08:47 AM       
Canadian law requires a skill testing question in order to give things away for free in a contest. If there was no skill-testing question, then it would be classified as a game of chance (ie. gambling) and subject to a whole bunch of other laws.

They put simple math problems on to avoid the paperwork.

EDIT: Some contests ask you the question when you go to pick up your prize rather than putting it on the entry form.
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Old Apr 16th, 2004, 12:39 PM        Re: Do the Garbage Pail Kids hate Canadians?
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I was looking, and I just saw this.



I'm not Canadian, but it make me think that the makers did.
^^^ WHAT THA FUCK???
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Old Apr 16th, 2004, 12:44 PM       
AChimp, you ruined an awesome fucking awesome with a perfectly reasonable answer.
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Old Apr 17th, 2004, 12:02 PM       
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Old Apr 17th, 2004, 12:22 PM       
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125...
Or 53? I can't remember whether division takes mathematical precedence over mulitiplication in an equation ... or does it depend on the order?
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Old Apr 17th, 2004, 12:53 PM       
Goes by the order. Those questions never mess with order of operations, though.
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Old Apr 17th, 2004, 12:55 PM       
(a*b)/c = a*(b/c), you math noob!

and, yeah, the answer is 53.
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Old Apr 17th, 2004, 12:58 PM       
No, it's 125. Trust me. Just read it right to left. There's never a trick with those questions (like going into negatives).

EDIT: Chances are they have a couple different "right" answers, though, just in case someone interprets the question differently.

Like I said, it's a token math question. They're always powers of 2 or multiples of 5. If they meant to divide 30 by 10, they would have put brackets around the 2 x 5.
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Old Apr 17th, 2004, 01:03 PM       
(30/2) X 5 = 75

30/(2 X 5) = 3

and 75 is not equal to 3. The associative law doesn't work for multiplication and division.
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Old Apr 17th, 2004, 01:05 PM       
I can't believe you guy's are argueing aboot a math question.
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Old Apr 17th, 2004, 01:18 PM       
Order of operations, jerks

30/2 is 15

15x5 is 75

75-10 is 65

65 + 60 is 125

The order of operations are Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication or Division (whichever comes first), then addition and subtraction. [whichever comes first also.]

Keep in mind this was a question for fucking kids.
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Old Apr 17th, 2004, 01:19 PM       
Aboot? I can't believe Fartin knows how to speak Canadian.
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Old Apr 17th, 2004, 01:37 PM       
i am ashamed

please don't tell my math teachers
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Old Apr 17th, 2004, 01:47 PM       
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The order of operations are Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication or Division (whichever comes first), then addition and subtraction. [whichever comes first also.]
That's, pretty much, all I was trying to remember. I, too, feel ashamed for not knowing simple math.

And the answer to life, the universe, and everything is ...





IS ...





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Old Apr 17th, 2004, 10:55 PM       
Thank you kellychaos.

If I have to sit through the 42 bit one more time, I think I might stab someone.
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Old Apr 17th, 2004, 11:57 PM       
I got 12 for an answer. WOW they really must be out to get us canadians!
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Old Apr 18th, 2004, 04:26 AM       
I think half the people who get the "42" reference only get it from it being referenced so fucking goddamn much and have never read the book.

I get the reference, and I've never read the book.
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Old Apr 18th, 2004, 06:16 PM       
There are six books.
Nobody fucking gets the 42 reference. I don't think Douglas Adams himself understood why that took off so fucking well. It's such a minor fucking detail. Fucking fuck fuck.
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Old Apr 18th, 2004, 06:46 PM       
You really are stupid, '42' is explained in the final book, & you had a clue to it by the frog guy in which ever book Adams hamfistedly slammed him in.

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