What's the freakin point of algebra????
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ALgerbra is used for comparing relationships between numbers.\n\nExamples would be deducing how much of a product would you sell if you offered it at a certain price, or how fast a person would have to go to catch up to someone else that left earlier.\n\nThere are MANY MANY uses in real life that you just do not realize till you are there and using them.
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I think the point may be to use synthetic division.  Look that up in your text.
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We don't actually use vectors in our every day lives, though we learn all about them during our flight training. As far as algebra II, we never do any math which is that complicated.
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No. I hate maths especially algebra..
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don't take it personally. they're just joking around. it's all pretend. fun and games, y'know. algebra two is pretty tough. when are you gonna take algebra three?
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What does this have to do with math you idiot?
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i love algebra...so yes
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i'm good at math, but what exactly is the quustion??? there isn't any... what is it, a equation?\nany way you can post it to sciences and mathematics > mathematics, im sure someone there can help you...\n\n>>>ok one minute i'm working on it...\n\n>>>there you go:\nlets do the first: (x-3)(x-1)(x+2)\nfirst we open the last two parentheses as in usual opening, and the (x-3) remains as it is. we get (x-3)[x^2+2x-x-2]\nequals (x-3)(x^2+x-2) then we open the two parentheses left. first we multiply by the first member (x) then the second (-3). then we get:\nx*x^2+x*x+x*(-2)-3*x^2-3*x-3*(-2)\nx^3 + x^2 - 2x -3x^2 -3x + 6\nand finally:\nx^3 -2x^2 -5x + 6\n\nthe second is the same way, i'm doing it, good luck :)\n\n>>>the second: (x-5)(x+1)(x-2)\nfirst we open the last two parentheses as in usual opening, and the (x-5) remains as it is. we get (x-5)[x^2-2x+x-2]\nequals (x-5)(x^2-x-2) then we open the two parentheses left. first we multiply by the first member (x) then the second (-5). then we get:\nx*x^2+x*(-x)+x*(-2)-5*x^2-5*(-x)-5*(-2)\nx^3 -x^2 -2x -5x^2 +5x +10\nand finally:\nx^3 -6x^2 +3x + 10\n\ni hope i helped...\n\n>>>oh i leave the first one to the last because i have to leave one of the three, and it really doesn't matter which one i leave. for example on the first i left the first parenthese (x-3)[(x-1)(x+2)] but i could leave the last [(x-3)(x-1)](x+2) or the middle (x-1)[(x-3)(x+2)] and i'd still get the same answer. i have to leave one of the three bcuz i can't open them all together, it's complicated and hard, and by opening two ane leave one it becomes much easier.
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Well, the idea of the answer being a product of numbers when multiplied does suffice. In advance math, the process is far more complicated. But the prinicple is the same. Example:\n2x(-2) = a -4x\nWhere 2x(2x) =4x squared. \nOr 2x(2) = 4x.\nOnce these little ideas are mastered, the rest begins to fall together. \nThe main thing for me is to have fun with maths, and not think the learning a chore!
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Don't believe it when people tell you that you don't need to know geometry or algebra.  Depending on what you do in your life you may never have to prove that angles A and B are the same and you may never have to solve for X, but that doesn't mean that algebra and geometry aren't useful.\n\nThe purpose of learning math isn't so much to know math itself (although for some that's essential).  It's more about teaching you how to think.  Studying math helps you to think logically and dispassionately.  That can serve you well in life.\n\nAlso, algebra and geometry teach you how to think abstractly.  People who can't think abstractly tend to be very limited in their thinking and in their lives in general.  If everything you think about has to be concrete and obvious, you are going to be a very narrow person.\n\nIn my opinion, passing basic algebra should be an exit requirement for high school.
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u hate maths? Why no hope.. come on.. we are here to have fun... not to get points... I log in after my tiring day of assignment, not for the sake of points... so dn worry~\nthis is not a race
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Now keep in mind I am a recent college graduate...but I remember when I took Algebra 2, I struggled some...ended up with like a B (I think..hard to remember those details).  I did much better with Geometry though-so thats cool. I enjoy math though-isn't that ironic? I did very well in college though.
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Wow, there is a lot here!  I'll start with some tips for solving algebra problems.  The first thing you should always remember is to play the equal game.  Whenever you add, subtract, multiply, or divide, you should do the same to the other side.  The other tip is to use the order of operations when simplifying.  Remember the sentence: Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally.  The initial letters of each word stands for the order of operations.  Do the Parenthesis first, followed by the Exponents, then Multiplication or Division, and Addition and/or subtraction next.  Finally, you should always simplify first using the order of operations before you start shifting numbers from one side of the = to the other.  \n\nI'm not going to work all of these problems, but I'll show you a few to get you started.\n\n1)\n3x-7 = 2   Add 7 to both sides\n3x = 9   Divide by 3\nx = 3\n\n4)\n6x - 3 = 2x - (4-3)/3   Simplify the stuff inside the parenthesis first\n6x - 3 = 2x - 1/3  Add 3 to both sides\n6x = 2x - 5/3  Subtract 2x from both sides\n4x = -5/3  Multiply both sides by 3\n12x = -5  Divide both sides by 12\nx = -12/5\n\nI hope this helps.  Good luck!
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The "seemingly pointless" aspects of Alg 1 and 2. huh?  Determined by whom?  You?  When you get to med school and something is difficult, will you also deem it "seemingly pointless"?  Your attitude is self serving, like that of many students today. They ask "when am I ever going to use this?"  The answer is "If you don't learn it, you'll never use it"  Mathematics is nothing more that the relationship between numbers. Some of the relationships are simple, some complex. Like the biological pathways, Krebs cycle, hormone feedback loops.  If your mind hasn't been trained to figure out the complexities of algebra 2, you'll never cut it in med school when they throw the real hard stuff at you.
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The KEY to solving any algebra problem, as I tell my students, is to get your unknown variable all by itself on one side of the equal sign.\n\nYou do this by "undoing" everyingthing that's being done to it right now.  And you "undo" the easy stuff first, like addition and subtraction, and then the more complicated stuff like multiplication and division.\n\nSo if you're adding 3 to X, then you would subtract 3.  And remember, what you do to one side of the equal sign, you MUST do to the other, so you would need to subtract 3 from both sides in my example.
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*ugh*.... Its been 10 years since that class... and I hated that part of geometry... that is the most pointless thing in math that I have experienced to date.. why would one write a paragraph... being two columns to begin wiht, and why would u write something that is just not solvable.... or has no point in life... this is probably the reason I skated outta that class with a C-
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What's with the ... ? Is that a space for a number, are you supposed to guess whether to use the + or the x ? I don't get it, I think I'm gonna cry :~(