CHEMICALS: Lowest Score Wins

[Elidor]

The number of hair products in your shower, multiplied by

The number of working phones in your household, whether currently plugged in or not, plus

The number of chemical containers under your kitchen sink, multiplied by

The number of computers in your house.

So for instance, I have:
11 shampoo/conditioner, times…
4 working phones, plus…
11 nasty chemicals under the kitchen sink, times…
1 computer

Equals 55

Can you beat it?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. 0

1 hair product, 1 phone, 0 chemical containers, and 4 computers.

(now, technically, everything is a chemical, but I use only "green" cleaning stuff, so I'm not including it as a nasty chemical, of which I have none, except a small amount of bleach in the laundry room which I use only rarely to kill mold and remove stains - I've gone through, I'd say, a pint of bleach in the last ten years)

[Kenneth ken]

5. that would be a 1 not 0

1 x 1 = 1
0 x 4 = 0
1 + 0 = 1

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Oops, you're right! I thought it was all multiplication!

I misread.

1 it is!

[mark414]

2. um...5

1 hair stuff
1 phone
5 chemicals
1 computer

[Kenneth ken]

6. um...6 actually

1 x 1 = 1
5 x 1 = 5
1 + 5 = 6

[mark414]

28. ohhh it was plus

[Not_Giving_Up]

3. Let's see

2 shampoo/conditioner, times
1 working phone, plus
7 cleaners under the sink
2 computers

Nope...just 11!

[Kenneth ken]

8. try 16

2 x 1 = 2
7 x 2 = 14
2 + 14 = 16

[Elidor]

18. No, it's 18

2 x 1 = 2
2 + 7 = 9
9 x 2 = 18

It's

times
plus
times

[Kenneth ken]

27. I will have to defer to you

since you asked the question. However, I will argue that the question was phrased badly. :D

In your case

11 x 4 = 44
11 x 1 = 11
44 + 11 = 55

or

11 x 4 = 44
44 + 11 = 55
55 x 1 = 55

so you should have been more clear on the groupings :D

but I'm only playing here anyway, so I don't mind being wrong.

:hi:

[Az]

4. Do we have to count nonworking computers?

2 Hair care products
x
2 phones
x
1 substance under the sink
x
3 working computers
__
12

[Kenneth ken]

11. nope 7 for you

2 x 2 = 4
1 x 3 = 3
4 + 3 = 7

[Elidor]

12. Man, I'm doing really bad here.

I can only plead my SO's hair care products. At my apartment I'd have about a 5.

[Elidor]

20. 2 x 2 = 4, 4 + 1 = 5, 5 x 3 = 15

Az has a 15.

[MAlibdem]

9. 8

2+2+0=8 ...dorm room, easy.

[diatribal]

10. How fun!

2 hair products
x
3 phones
+
8 chemicals
x
2 computers

= 28

!!

Sorry. I'm very clean :) And I counted my cell phone too.

[Kenneth ken]

16. or 22

2 x 3 = 6
8 x 2 = 16
6 + 16 = 22 for you

[Kenneth ken]

13. too many chemicals obviously

they've made all the respondents math-challenged :D

[diatribal]

15. Hey!

I got it the second time around!

I even fixed it right.

I think.

Lemme go check.

I swear I'm not a total idiot.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. No, yours would be 22

[Elidor]

26. No, he's right, it's 28

This is too funny. All of us are falling apart under basic math. You guys have me doubting my own judgement now. :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. Well, you see, you should have put in parentheses

Since you didn't, the way that you put it out:

A * B + C * D

that doesn't get done sequentially - multiplication and division always take precedence over addition and subtraction. So, the way you did it, you actually wrote it thus:

(A * B) + (C * D)

When, apparently, what you meant was:

((A * B) + C) * D

And since your initial figure of 55, given your starting data, works out with either equation, we had no way of knowing that you meant the second one.

But yes, absolutely, the way that you wrote it out would be taken by anyone who has studied math to mean AB + CD.

[Kenneth ken]

33. YAY! vindication

thanks for laying that out so nice and tidy.

:bounce: :bounce:

:hi:

[Elidor]

25. You're multiplying everything

:D
There's a plus symbol in there.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. LOL! Not a single person has done the math correctly yet

[SW FL Dem]

22. Order of Operations n/t

[DIKB]

24. okay

9 minutes after you posted this, but is the math right at least ?

[SW FL Dem]

19. OK

hair products in shower 2 (one hubby's,one mine)
times the 6 phones in the house

Plus the chemicals under the sink (4) times the # of computers (1)

I get 12 + 4=16.

[Bouncy Ball]

21. 66.

[DIKB]

23. Ouch

I failed miserably.

(13 hair products x 4 phones) + (2 chemical containers x 4 computers) = 60

[Elidor]

30. Ummmm…I'm afraid it's worse than that

I didn't put parentheses in the equation.

13 x 4 = 52
52 + 2 = 54
54 x 4 = 216

:yourock:
Someone with a higher score! YES!

[SW FL Dem]

32. No parentheses are needed. The rule of Order of Operations still applies

[SW FL Dem]

35. Order of Operations PEM DAS

Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition then Subtraction - always in that order.

[DIKB]

34. but I thought . . .

Well if you're gonna lose, may as well do it grandly :)

Now let's see someone else try and be the biggest loser.

[diatribal]

31. Math is hard

:(

[Kenneth ken]

36. I guess I will score myself

2 hair care products
x
2 working phones
+
3 cemical containers
x
2 computers

my math says that = 10
Hardhead says it should = 14

:hi:

what do I win as parting gifts? :D

[pansypoo53219]

37. do rotaries count?

or shampoo in the cupboard but not the shower?

[DrWeird]

38. Jesus Christ, people.

You're giving me contact embarassment.

[laundry_queen]

39. Okay. I can beat that. But in the wrong direction. LOL.

4 hair products (2 shampoos, 2 conditioners - I like to switch every couple days.)
3 working phones.
13 nasty chemicals (2 kinds of dishwasher det, jet dry, oven cleaner, stovetop cleaner, bleach, vim, all purpose cleaner, liquid dish soap, Goo gone, Mr clean magic eraser, SOS pads, comet)
3 working computers (mine, dh's laptop, dh's work computer)

So 4x3=12
12+13=25
25x3=75

yikes.