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Originally Posted by DARISC

Oh man - I'm sorry. I told you I'm clerically challenged and make a lot of tpyos.

I came up with 288 and 17, then went to Wolfram and got the same answers (after a number of tpyos). I'm a freakin' artist, not a mathematician (like, surprise, surprise!). I better shut up, huh?



I just called a buddy of mine who aced his math SAT and got a degree in astrophysics. I don't know ANYONE who comes close to him in math skills. I read him the equations and he said, You're kidding me! You can't do this? I said, I'm not sure at this point, just gimme the damn numbers. Well, he said, the first one is 288 and...the second one is 17.

I told him about this thread and he said, Yeah, some equations can be written in a way that can cause people to make errors. but there's nothing 'wrong' with the way these two are written.

So I'm stickin' with 288 and 17 and keepin' my dumb mouth shut from here on in.

You're doing good in my book. I knew you had it right, I just couldn't figure out what was going on with your posts.

My wife got the equation right. She's not really a math person. She did take Calc 1 a few years back to get her Biology degree, but she certainly didn't consider it easy. When I asked her the question, she gave me the 24x12 answer right away. When I told her of the issues here, she said, "you just follow the rules and that's the answer."

I got a 780 (out of 800) on the math portion of the SATs when I took it. Took Calc in HS and AP tested out of basic calc 1 in college. I took engineering calc 1, 2, 3 and differential equations in college. I recently took Calc 1, 2, and 3 again and got A, A, and B. I'm sure there are plenty of guys on this board that have me beat in quantity and quality of math work in school, but I'm no slouch.