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Ngai fafa!!!!! I have looked at some of those Mathematics papers. My KCSE certificate indicates that I passed but I think that part of my brain has since died. I cannot remember a thing!!!! They may as well be written in Greek.

Sample this:

Solve the equation:log (x+24)- 2 log 3=log (9-2x)

For those who were talking about helping children with homework. Sasa akileta hii nitaanzia wapi???!!! I think teachers just love torturing young minds!!

Where are these things applied in the real world? I am not asking this out of spite. Someone please educate me on where this difficult maths that has alphabetical letters instead of numbers is applied.

@kusadikika,
That is stuff for starters in high school which tells me that you used a different curriculum or you never went past kirathi seven....lol.

Guka, Vitabu yetu haikuwa na hiyo. I remember a thin book called log book that had rows and columns of numbers lakini haikuwa na "x". Shida tupu hii!!

GG So what do you do with this BODMAS?

Ati, solve the equation. Sasa hii ni kusema nini? Do they mean what is the answer ama what?

Nikyo kyeragwo, ti thuruari. Nigiikare!!

@Wendz, those virus have since mutated to give birth to cos, tan, cot, sec and cosec!!

@kusadikika - Are you serious? This is a very easy sum! This is how you do it:

First you "divide" everything by log to get:

(x + 24) - 2 3 = (9 - 2x)

Next you remove the space between 2 and 3 to get

(x + 24) - 23 = (9 - 2x)

Then you remove the brackets to get

x + 24 - 23 = 9 - 2x

Then [and this is very important] you "receive a very important phone call" and "talk" for hours. Kwisha maneno...

Plan B: Don't even start. Just tell the kid "Wacha mchezo! Hii hesabu rahisi namna hii ndio inakusumbua? When I was in school..." And you give a very long story of how you used to trek 20 kilometres to school [After milking, feeding the cows, watering the garden etc.] and still became number 1!!!

PS: Always stick to this plan B!!!

@Maich,
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@everlasting,
and brown is?

@tuvok - Wewe!!! Wacha uongo. When I was in high school I was told x = 15. Kwani walipunguza?