Solve this

Solve this.

Protip: you CAN'T solve it without using common core. The same CC Trump wants to get rid of

Second Protip: It's not 65

0, trains are not built with people in them they all start empty.

clearly the answer is 65... what's the common core answer OP?

it's a trick question to teach kids obedience to authority by asking them to do stupid things like those in common core.

>inb4 1 post by this ID

Show your working out and I'll show you how its wrong.

Jews

It's 82

-19 (off)
+17 (on)
-2 (difference)
63 (total on now)

it's 61

63-17+19=65

63 + 17 - 19 = 61.

Seems pretty easy to me.

It's not 61 either, much lower.

They were experimenting with this stuff when I was in high school. It literally regressed my math skills to a 3rd grader. GET IT OUT!

show us then you fucking tard

reverse it

X = 63 - 17 + 19

This is b8 right...

It's 65. Are kikes reinventing math now?

No, it's 61. That's simply how the numbers add up.

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It literally is 65. I don't have any idea what the common core way to solve this problem is, but the normal way is:

x - 19 + 17 = 63
x - 2 = 63
x = 65
QED

Fuck off welder.

i remember a dumb trick question that was set up kind of like this, it was more explicit though about when the "begin" is

is the answer 1, the driver?

Where is your number line and dot graph?

-4 for not using the line or graph, 1/5.

Let X be the number of people initially on the train.

X - 19 + 17 = 63
X + (-19 + 17) = 63
X - 2 = 63
X = 65

>Second Protip: It's not 65
Maybe if your people were better at math you wouldn't have lost a war to a bunch of fucking birds.

57 ofc

It's 65

show work now moron
x=65

82?

i dont understand how this could be difficult.

82. I've seen this before. This is just the question maker being retarded. It's like their adhd flared up that day and they weren't thinking. It's odd to throw in the red herring of 17 people but maybe that was the point? That said common core is retarded and makes things far more tedious than they need be.

this is obviously the correct answer. why are math teachers so shit at writing questions

Do you have the answer or are you just a petrol sniffing abo?

>unironically this dumb

Prime example of the dumbing down of the educational system with common core. Using wordplay.

The amount of people getting off are replaced by the ones getting on, save for 2. Which you'd subtract from 63 to = 61.

How is this hard to people? Where are you even getting 65? Just work backwards.

>Now there are 63 people on the train.
63
>17 people get on the train
+17
>19 people get off the train
-19

63 + 17 = 80
80 = 19 = 61

There were 61 people on the train at the start of the problem.

Not sixty five. Asking how many at start so before 17 got on. Is trick question. Extra unneeded info to throw you off.

This is right. CC obviously fucked OPs brain. People who got 65 can't tell the difference between adding and subtracting. Too much weed most likely.

>inb4 answer is 0 because strayan kikery

>get 65
>wonder if common core would come up with a different answer or if its just a ruse

I graduated long before common core was introduced, but I know a kid who grew up with it and he's probably the dumbest person I've ever met who hasn't been diagnosed with some sort of mental retardation.

Common core is literally making our kids retarded, pls stahp america.

Word problems are better though...

But the answer is 65.

Words don't have a lot of place in math

Between 20 and 65.
As 19 get OFF at the FIRST stop
First stop... We dont know how many people were left on other than the driver as it has done many stops or could have done 2 stops.

Common Core is stupid.

wrong way round, nigger.

its 19 or 17 isnt it?

x - 19 + 17 = 63
x +17 = 63 + 19
x+17 = 82
x = 82 - 17
x = 65

just for fun

x - 19 + 17 = 63
x - 36 = 63
x = 63 + 36
x = 99

>99 get
kek has spoken!

round 19 to 20
round 17 to 20
round 63 to 60
add and subtract and then add the rounded 20's
subtract 1 and 3 and add 3
65

That is what I thought, because you don't include the passengers that get off.

46?

19 get off FIRST. Jesus fucking christ how rampant is autism in this board.

"some"

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Only people who have gone through 20 straight years of school could possibly solve this.

if you unironically think this is 61, kill yourself

x - 19 + 17 = 63

x = amount originally on train
19=amount that LEFT the train
17=amount that GOT ON the train
63=amount on the train at the end

solve for x. x = 65

also fuck CC

The 19 people are obviously a red herring, so the answer is 46.

17 got on at first stop. Question asking before first stop.

>how its wrong.

there is no how in math, math is about the end result not the path

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The problem is
(X-19)+17=63

Simplifying
X + -19 + 17 = 63

Reorder the terms:
-19 + 17 + X = 63

Combine like terms: -19 + 17 = -2
-2 + X = 63

Solving
-2 + X = 63

Solving for variable 'X'.

Move all terms containing X to the left, all other terms to the right.

Add '2' to each side of the equation.
-2 + 2 + X = 63 + 2

Combine like terms: -2 + 2 = 0
0 + X = 63 + 2
X = 63 + 2

Combine like terms: 63 + 2 = 65
X = 65

Simplified you get X = 65

The train started with 65 people on it at the start of the problem.

As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits:
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St. Ives?

Wow. Holy shit. Can't tell the difference between past and present. Please don't reproduce.

you have to be a bernie supporter to think 19 people can exit an empty train

It's 46. We have not reached the first stop yet. 17 people just got on and made the total 63. 63-17=46

no, the question is much simpler than you realize.

the final is 65, but how many people were on the train when that 19 got off.

see?

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The train does not leave until the conductor on board says so. Engineer is not the only person on board. It is not 1. 65 is the answer.

Some people were on the train: x people.

19 people got off the train: x - 19

17 people got on the train: x - 19 + 17

Now 63 people are on the train: x - 19 + 17 = 63

Solve for x.
63-17=46
46+19=65
x=65

This is correct.

>How many people were on the train to begin with?

Two. The Conductor and the engineer.

fuck your common core bullshit, its 69. PEMDAS master race.

Im assuming correct answer is 21 or 22
As. X+19 and -2 variance. So. 19+2. The varience includes driver so 19+2 is 21.
Assuming everyone but driver and ticketer got off at forst stop

It says "get" not "got"... Therefore present tense and we should assume 19 first and then 17.

Exactly, this guy gets it. It's so obvious.

Math Grad here. The answer is 65.

I remember this question, it was brought out by a stupid as fuck teacher I know who failed her math degree. She claimed the answer was 46 and was adamant about it.
She took it to twitter and started complaining about it. It became popular and a bunch of magazines and news websites started calling her a retard, which made her even more butthurt.

OP, go fuck yourself.

1, just you.

63 - 17 = 46

46 + 19 = 65


65 - 19 + 17 = 63

Your computer is wrong

If you assume the information given in the question is relevant to the answer and the teacher is not fucking with you because he's gay, then the net change is -2, so the original quantity is 2 more than the final quantity. If that's not the answer, then it's a trick question anyone who thinks trick questions belong in math should be gassed.

I changed my mind. Thought was 82 but forgot about 6 in the ashtray. 88 is mein correct answer.

If you havent figured it out after 5 sec you are retarded and you should go back to 9gag.

retard alert

this

t.Stemlord who is still confused

The 17 people getting on does make a difference, because it indicates that the net change in the number of passengers is -2. That means that you just need to add 2 to the end number to find the initial number of passengers.

If the train had started with 82 people, there would indeed be 63 people after 19 got off. But the phrase "Now there are 63 people on the train," comes after an additional 17 people got on, meaning that if there were initially 82 people on the train, now there would be 80.

The answer is 65.

x-19+17=63
x-2=63
x=65

x - 19 + 17 = 63
x - 19 = 46
x = 46 + 19
x = 65

It's so stupid because you can write it out and answer it so easily and I'm saying that as a certified retard who can't into numbers.

x - 19 + 17 = y (63)

OP has abandoned the thread because he's an emu fucking cunt.

MODS! Ban the cunt

yeah its basically just a retarded trick question. you dont need common core to solve it though. i have no idea how to common my cores and i got it.

This. Leaf was right for once in his countries existence.

>we have not reached the first stop yet
>17 people just got on

this is your brian on common core

It is actually 46. I don't have a "math degree" but I do have this.

51

>only keeping 6 in the ashtray

You're missing the ones the train throws into the furnace to make it move.

0, it's the first stop.

>you have to be a bernie supporter to think 19 people can exit an empty train

To begin with, not instantly prior to when the 19 people got off.

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe."

You fucking retard. This kind of shit makes me lose faith in Sup Forums. Even Antifa can't be this stupid.

0 because niggers aren't people.

Yeah, it's meant to be a trick on "wordplay".

i.e. Hurr durr haven't reached the first stop yet. ie. 46

The problem is, it's a fucking math question. This kind of shit wouldn't get through a proper educational system

>Certificate
>Kangaroo-land

Literally worth the dirt under my toenail.

This is accurate. Except for the ''gay teacher'' part. The teacher's sexual orientation has nothing to do with this.

This is why we need Common Core.

okay glad to see this, it's definitely 65

yea, common core confirmed for retardation i guess

really common'd my cores