The Peak Of Mount Everest Is 8848..

[buzzlightyea]

The peak of mount everest is 8848 metres, base camp is 5364 metres..how much higher is the peak of mount everest that base camp?

[angie55]

//At least two wrong buttons imo.//

The error can be made with just one wrong button.......

[-Talbot-]

.33 seconds to find my calculator, Judge.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=calculator&oq=calculator&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0l5.5295j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[-Talbot-]

lmao ... I'm surprised EDDIE got the question wrong.

https://www.quora.com/The-peak-of-Mount-Everest-is-8848m-above-sea-level-Base-Camp-is-5364m-above-sea-level-How-much-higher-is-the-peak-of-Mount-Everest-than-Base-Camp

[jim360]

If it's a standard homework question then it's quite possible that several people will want to ask it. And quite possible that several teachers will have messed up the marking.

I don't know what's happened here, but at a guess maybe Eddie's brilliant answer gives a clue...

(While we're at it, Eddie, how could you look at what the question was, see the "answer" you found, and not instantly think "this must be wrong, no way can 8-4=9"??)

[Jackdaw33]

Many years ago I and the rest of the class got a maths problem wrong. Turned out that the teacher had been marking from the answer book which contained an error.

[Baldric]

///The error can be made with just one wrong button///

3484 / 3479

How does that work then Angie55?

[Mamyalynne]

Punch 5369 in instead of 5364

[dannyk13]

If you punch any button instead of the 4 you will get an error.

[angie55]

Baldric, enter 5369 instead of 5364. Reasonably easy to work out.

[-Talbot-]

There is another button EDDIE pressed that he shouldn't have.

[Mamyalynne]

That could be said of many of us on here Talbot.

[wiltsman]

Buzz - As well as stating the answer was wrong, did the teacher inform your child what they thought the answer was?

[-Talbot-]

Mamya, True ... but when you are having a dig about a poster's maffs it's probably best to make sure your own is up to scratch.

[Mamyalynne]

Certainly but to stretch the thread on that error alone seems OTT, to me at least.

Last time I had a go at a Maths thread I ended up with more than egg on my face.

[-Talbot-]

The question is in 'Chatterbank' (you, of course, know the rest)

[Mamyalynne]

I do.

[zebo]

Did your child put in the units, metres? 3484 metres, although as the units are in the questions they should be necessary. Can't believe people went for a calculator, wrong buttons or not!

[New Judge]

"Can't believe people went for a calculator, wrong buttons or not!"

Nor can I. But then I was taught to add up and take away when was at prmary school.