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Quote from Cuuldude

Indeed! Not so much report work, but lots of moderator apps and PMs.

Not forgetting spambot flagging...

Quote from EL_Kurto_15

Maths is boring... Lets discuss something interesting... like Red dwarf!

Maths are fuun.

Quote from Cuuldude

Indeed! Not so much report work, but lots of moderator apps and PMs.

So rather than dealing with complaints about posts, you work with people sucking up too? Awesome.

Quote from Tucking_Fypo

So for example, the number 2, base is 2 and height is 4
so 2 x 4 /2 ?

So the boxes are ther for distraction?

Yes.
The little squares are there to tell you that the height is perpendicular to the base.

Quote from Tucking_Fypo

So for example, the number 2, base is 2 and height is 4
so 2 x 4 /2 ?

So the boxes are ther for distraction?

The boxes are there to show the logic behind the formula. A triangle is just half a square. So treat is like a square and then half it.

Quote from shairn

Yes.
The little squares are there to tell you that the height is perpendicular to the base.

Oh. Those squares.

Quote from Kubik

The boxes are there to show the logic behind the formula. A triangle is just half a square. So treat is like a square and then half it.

Oh. Those squares.

I'm not sure what square he was talking about actually. And triangles are half rectangles, not squares. Significant difference.

Quote from EL_Kurto_15

Maths is boring... Lets discuss something interesting... like Red dwarf!

I didn't know what it was until now.
Never even heard of it.

Quote from shairn

I'm not sure what square he was talking about actually. And triangles are half rectangles, not squares. Significant difference.

Sorry. Square implies all sides are equal.

Proof that listening to a bunch of people arguing about how math works is good for you.

Quote from Phoenixkingtle

Simply square = minecraft.

Not really. It's all cubes. There's a difference there too.

Find the area of the rectangle then the area of the triangle. Add them together.

Quote from Tucking_Fypo

What now?
See? 10/10 at the top!

That's not hard. That's just simple addition. How wide is the first triangle?

Quote from Phoenixkingtle

Cubes are made of squares.

Yes, but cubes are not squares.

Quote from Phoenixkingtle

Cubes are made of squares.

You can't make 3D out of 2D, that's silly.
Cubes do have a square surface though.

Quote from Zalvager

And atoms.

Yeah. You can't say that cubes are atoms. The relation between the two only goes so far.

Quote from Tucking_Fypo

Aha, so on teh first one, I do 6 x 3 / 2 and get the answer from it, and then do the same that is above teh first one, and then add the answers up?

Nooooooo. The rectangle is still a rectangle, so you don't do any division. Take the area of the rectangle, and then take the area of the triangle, then add then together.

Algebraically, it's shown like this: (6*3)+((6*2)/2)

So you can cancel out the division. So the equation looks like this: (6*3)+6

6*3 is 18, and 18 plus 6 is 24. Done.