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scamrock
Title: Space Bastard
Joined: Jan 26 2008
Location: Planet Druidia
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Don't know how familiar everyone here is with collecting sports cards. But if you read the fine print on a pack of cards, it tells you "NO PURCHASE NECESSARY". Basically, you can send them an envelope. They have drawings, and you may or may not win an insert card.
Here is the part that caught my eye on a pack of 2008 Topps football:
"Potential Canadian winners will be required to first correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question. Include on a 3 X 5 card the answer to the following skill-test question: 5 + 4 x 2 - 8 = ?"
What the fuck does this have to do with anything?
When the hell did Canadian + dumbass = ineligible to receive free insert cards from Topps? WTF?
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King
Title: CTE
Joined: Apr 27 2008
Location: Harrisburg, PA
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What is funny is that isn't tops, I saw that in some old video game magazines, and old Milk Cap / Pog collecting magazine etc. Not the same math problem, but a math problem nonetheless, very funny.
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
Location: Sauerkrautland
Posts: 1414
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It probably has something to do with gambling laws in Canada. By asking a mathematical question, winning is no longer determined solely by chance, but skill as well. Therefore it's not technically gambling any more.
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scamrock
Title: Space Bastard
Joined: Jan 26 2008
Location: Planet Druidia
Posts: 2392
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Okay. I'm on the BETS OFF watchlist (not really, I don't think) so I'm not aware of the gambling laws in Canada. That would make a lot more sense.
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mjl1783
Joined: Aug 13 2008
Location: Watertown, NY
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I dunno', seems like a pretty good idea to me. The little mutant wants his pogs? Then he has to answer a damn math question. Wouldn't it be great if more internet users had to pass this test before they were allowed YouTube and forum memberships? Think about it, everyone who got to run his/her mouth on the web would be at least semi-literate!
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scamrock
Title: Space Bastard
Joined: Jan 26 2008
Location: Planet Druidia
Posts: 2392
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
Posts: 7565
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Someone has to do it, I may as well...
The answer is 5
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sidewaydriver
2010 SLF Tag Champ
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Joined: May 11 2008
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Way to go, you just disqualified all the Canadians because you gave away the answer.
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
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| Way to go, you just disqualified all the Canadians because you gave away the answer. |
And we're all involved in a rigged card give away now!
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
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Well, that's what you get for living in Canada.
You get your frozen asses pwned by my American math skillz.
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Shut up, Dorn
Title: White Chocolate
Joined: Jan 04 2008
Location: Grate Whyte Norf
Posts: 1179
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isnt the answer 10?
5 + 4 x 2 -8 = 10
There are no parenthesis - so dont you simply do it from left to right then?
so 5 plus 4 is 9 times 2 is 18 minus 8 is 10.
Yeah, i did it on a calculator. its 10.
Your welcome, Canada.
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
Location: Sauerkrautland
Posts: 1414
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Multiplication has higher precedence than addition and subtraction.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| Shut up, Dorn wrote: |
isnt the answer 10?
5 + 4 x 2 -8 = 10
There are no parenthesis - so dont you simply do it from left to right then?
so 5 plus 4 is 9 times 2 is 18 minus 8 is 10.
Yeah, i did it on a calculator. its 10.
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Dear god, you realize that M3GA MAN might read this and believe you?
You should not kid about the holy Order of Operations.
Also, in case you were not kidding, remedial math will be held in room 006. Take a left at the Oval Office go down the stairs past the pool and it is the first door on the left.
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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They may have to do it for authorization reasons, kind of like how websites make you fill in those little codes to register on forums and crap.
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
Location: Sauerkrautland
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Captchas on websites are only there to prove that you're human and not a bot.
I bothered to look for a Wikipedia article on the subject and came up with this: Skill testing question. It's more or less what I already said above.
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heeheex2
Joined: Aug 20 2008
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Teralyx
Title: Master Exploder
Joined: Jun 04 2008
Location: Goldenrod City
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