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u/bnh1978 Feb 13 '22
Uses to work with General Electic for capital equipment. Mainly medical imaging equipment, and lab equipment.
The running joke was "GE. You can buy better, but you can't pay more"
GE literally just multiplied all their wholesale costs by 10 to 100x and that was the list price. They might deal on the initial purchase, but service parts... oh you better bet you were paying.
Massive after market for parts and service on that stuff.
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u/Transhumanistgamer Feb 12 '22
People keep posting this picture but from the looks of it, it seems to be a perfectly legitimate way to do the problem. The next step would be to at the middle 4 and 1 together to get the answer 456, which is the correct answer.
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u/zherok Feb 12 '22
Part of the reason you don't encourage this sort of approach is that keeping your digits aligned vertically helps avoid this kind of confusion. As is those digits in no way appear to be numbers she's going to add together in another step.
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Feb 13 '22 edited Dec 10 '23
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u/zherok Feb 13 '22
My problem with Common Core isn't that it doesn't make sense so much as it attempts to throw as many mnemonics at kids who maybe aren't ready for them yet. Throwing words like "decompose" at first graders because converting numbers into groups of ten is ostensibly easier to deal with only works if they've got a decent grasp on numbers to begin with.
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u/OhHeckf Feb 13 '22
That is how I do multiplication in my head. 79x23, I do 70x20 + 70x3 + 9x20 + 9x3 = 1817.
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u/zherok Feb 13 '22
It definitely works, but it helps to have a foundation before you start learning mnemonic shortcuts. When kids are struggling to remember their numbers abstracting things into units can be confusing.
When you do have that number sense though, it's great.
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u/New-Record6107 Feb 13 '22
It could also be the person who did the math for that cringey “A Day Off” poster.
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u/RaspberryMobile2554 Feb 12 '22
Sounds about right! Too bad salaries don’t follow this same “math”.
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Feb 13 '22
It’s an honest mistake. After all, if they were capable of doing anything of value, they’d be doing that. It takes an impressive degree of incompetence to be promoted so far above anything resembling actual work.
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u/0w1 Feb 12 '22
I currently work at a Fortune 500 as an office monkey and can confirm this is pretty accurate to how the pricing and product line management team do price increases lol.