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Is this Common Core math question the worst math question in human history?
Daily Caller ^ | Dec 12, 2013 | Eric Owens

Posted on 12/12/2013 8:47:50 PM PST by Innovative

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To: Innovative

It doesn’t matter as long as she gets a free abortion.

Pray America is Waking


41 posted on 12/12/2013 9:28:45 PM PST by bray (Repeal Obamacare)
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To: Innovative
Try this


42 posted on 12/12/2013 9:29:33 PM PST by Half Vast Conspiracy (Proportionally, Ft. Hood is to Ft. Worth as Washington Navy Yard is to Arlington, VA.)
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To: Innovative

Stick it, Juanita, and nothing will be left over.

OTOH, Juanita has no friends, she only has amigos so the question is moot.


43 posted on 12/12/2013 9:29:42 PM PST by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: Innovative

Easy. the answer is 0.

Juanita wants to give bags of stickers to her friends. Bags are usually plastic. plastic is harmful to the environment. No one will be friends with someone who wants to harm the environment. Nobody will be Juanita’s friend. Juanita has no friends - she needs no stickers.

Q.E.D.


44 posted on 12/12/2013 9:32:09 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Innovative

Well, she could buy 12, 24, 36, 48 etc etc


45 posted on 12/12/2013 9:32:13 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Innovative

46 posted on 12/12/2013 9:32:20 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: bigtoona

Good one!


47 posted on 12/12/2013 9:32:40 PM PST by Ray76
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

My thought exactly. It isn’t developing an analytical thought process by being unclear.

OR

The answer may just be elementary.

Answer: None. The issue of how many friends is moot, as she has no money (so says the author of the idiotic problem).


48 posted on 12/12/2013 9:33:14 PM PST by logi_cal869
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To: oldbill

42 was Jackie Robinsons number and it’s been retired from MLB by all teams.


49 posted on 12/12/2013 9:33:38 PM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: informavoracious

bags....hmmmm....what a dopey problem


50 posted on 12/12/2013 9:33:55 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Innovative

Juanita is LGBT so any answer is gender biased


51 posted on 12/12/2013 9:34:37 PM PST by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: KC_Lion

If the second hand is between 12 and 3 it’s A; between 3 and 6 it’s B...

If the clock is digital and/or has no second hand you’re gonna fail.


52 posted on 12/12/2013 9:36:21 PM PST by Gil4 (Progressives - Trying to repeal the Law of Supply and Demand since 1848)
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To: Innovative

Looking at the pdf that has the similar questions, I suppose the answer is “any multiple of twelve” because twelve can be divided evenly 4 ways, and 6 ways, and is the least number that can be so divided.

It’s kind of funny, since the implication is that she isn’t sure if she has four friends or six friends! Plus, who cares if there are stickers left over?

All these questions seem to be oriented towards testing comprehension of abstract number concepts ( LCM in particular ) in terms of “practical” problems. Nothing so very wrong with it I guess. As an aged math nerd I find them very amusing.


53 posted on 12/12/2013 9:40:13 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: Innovative

A+Z=X


54 posted on 12/12/2013 9:43:43 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

What age/grade is that for?


55 posted on 12/12/2013 9:45:30 PM PST by expat1000
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To: Innovative
15. Juanita wants to give bags of stickers to her friends

I must be getting old, I've never heard of "stickers". Do you smoke, snort of shoot up that stuff?

56 posted on 12/12/2013 9:46:17 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Innovative

The problem is not that hard. She is either giving out 4 bags or 6 bags (variable friendships).

She must buy at minimum of 6 stickers (not the answer), because if she chooses to give out 6 bags, then she must have 6 stickers to put one in every bag.

The next possibility is 12 stickers (first multiple of 6). She can give out 6 bags with two stickers each.

Does this also work for 4?

Yes, it does. She can give out 4 bags with three stickers in each..
needs to buy a multiple of 4 and 6.

So the first available solution is that Juanita should buy 12 stickers.

This is not the only solution. They did not say, what is the MINIMUM number of stickers she could buy. She can buy far more stickers, as long as it she buys stickers in multiples of 12. So 12*n where n is 1,2,3...

Or 12, 24, 36 ... to infinity and beyond - Buzz Lightyear

Now if we wanted to do this by multiplication.

We could have multiplied both numbers together to get 24 (6*4). That would have given us one of the many answers.

However, notice that 4 is 2 * 2 and 6 is 2*3

So we need to eliminate the common multipliers to get the lowest solution.

So drop a 2, and we are left with 2 * 2 * 3 = 12.

Therefore, 12 is the first acceptable answer.


57 posted on 12/12/2013 9:48:39 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: Innovative

This may be an urban legend. I read the exact same purported CC question in the comments section of a Breitbart article, except there it was “Sally” giving out “balloons”. According to Twitchy, the source is a tweeter who got it from a ‘friend’ who is a teacher. Does anyone have a link that goes to a more original source?


58 posted on 12/12/2013 9:49:55 PM PST by Fantasywriter
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To: Innovative
Is this really a question?
What are stickers?
Is there really an answer?
59 posted on 12/12/2013 9:50:02 PM PST by Baynative (Wake me up early, be good to my dogs and teach my children to pray.)
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To: Innovative

Basically it’s a least common multiple problem. What’s the least common multiple of 4 and 6? Answer is 12, since 3 x 4 = 12, and 2 x 6 = 12.


60 posted on 12/12/2013 9:52:31 PM PST by MCH
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