I am having a brain-fart.... how would you distribute this through?
.4(-P(.5))
Posted: 4/16/2008 7:01:47 PM EDT
[#1]
First, outer, inner, last
Just a guess
Posted: 4/16/2008 7:03:51 PM EDT
[#2]
would it be -.2P?
EDIT: <------ in spite of my post count, I am apparently not a H4xorz.
Posted: 4/16/2008 7:05:44 PM EDT
[#3]
Order of Operations. . . .PEMODAOSLTR
.4 (-.5p)
Posted: 4/16/2008 7:06:08 PM EDT
[#4]
I think the answer is 3.14
Posted: 4/16/2008 7:07:54 PM EDT
[#5]
Quoted: I think the answer is 3.14
You have Pi on the brain.
Posted: 4/16/2008 7:09:31 PM EDT
[#6]
If P is an independent variable, and the paretheses imply multiplication (versus P being a function of a seperate independent variable evaluated at the constant .5)
then -.2P is the answer.
- AG
Posted: 4/16/2008 7:11:04 PM EDT
[#7]
start inside and work your way out.
Posted: 4/16/2008 7:11:54 PM EDT
[#8]
Ok, that's what I thought.... I'm just getting the wrong answer to my complete solution so my error is somewhere else.
thanks.
Posted: 4/16/2008 7:12:50 PM EDT
[#9]
Quoted: would it be -.2P?
EDIT: <------ dispite my post count, I am apparently not a H4xorz.
Is it too much to ask to filter this through a spell check?
Posted: 4/16/2008 7:16:46 PM EDT
[#10]
Quoted:
Quoted: would it be -.2P?
EDIT: <------ dispite my post count, I am apparently not a H4xorz.
Is it too much to ask to filter this through a spell check?