Post the easiest question that 20%+ of 2+2ers will answer wrong(polls)

[trumpjosh]

I lol'd.

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who says daddy long legs are more piosonous than black widows?

[dvsfun1]

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How many states are there in the united states?



Officially there are 4 commonwealths.



Are you for real?????

Does that mean that there are only 46 states in the United States of America??? Does that also include Puerto Rico as a state in the USA???? Which would mean, in reality that there may be more than 50 STATES in the USA.

Don't even get me started....

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Since I spend most of my time in the great Commonwealth of Virginia, I am for real. You may also add Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. No, you may not count Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is a territory.

[bwana devil]

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How many states are there in the united states?

Officially there are 4 commonwealths.

Are you for real?????

Does that mean that there are only 46 states in the United States of America??? Does that also include Puerto Rico as a state in the USA???? Which would mean, in reality that there may be more than 50 STATES in the USA.

Don't even get me started....

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Since I spend most of my time in the great Commonwealth of Virginia, I am for real. You may also add Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. No, you may not count Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is a territory.

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i believe Glo was saying that those commonwealths are states first and foremost and should be considered in the number of states in the US. something the person before him was implying perhaps they should not have be.

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[Pudge714]

Wow. This thread is retarded.
Evan if you want to go on your logic versus intelligence rant this would be a good time to do it.
If I went through all the polls I would guess less than 90% of them are on what the OP intended on.

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The square root of 4 is both 2 and "something else." Do you see why?

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Wrong. The square root of 4 is 2 and only 2. If the question were worded "what number squared is equal to 4?", then you would be right; there would be multiple answers.

[fiskebent]

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The square root of 4 is both 2 and "something else." Do you see why?

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Wrong. The square root of 4 is 2 and only 2. If the question were worded "what number squared is equal to 4?", then you would be right; there would be multiple answers.

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The definition of the square root function is the inverse function of f(x) = x*x. Which is basically - exactly as you worded it - what number squared is equal to 4?

So the square root of 4 is -2 and 2.

From http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SquareRoot.html : "Note that any positive real number has two square roots, one positive and one negative. For example, the square roots of 9 are -3 and +3".

In all fairness it does also say "In common usage, unless otherwise specified, "the" square root is generally taken to mean the principal square root.".

[mosta]

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The square root of 4 is both 2 and "something else." Do you see why?

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Wrong. The square root of 4 is 2 and only 2. If the question were worded "what number squared is equal to 4?", then you would be right; there would be multiple answers.

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I'll leave it to any of the actual mathematicians here to explain why it has proven to be essential to look at _all_ the roots at once.


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