{"id":628537,"date":"2010-01-12T13:31:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/chit-chat\/47550-anybody-really-good-math.html"},"modified":"2010-01-12T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:31:10","slug":"anybody-really-good-at-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/628537","title":{"rendered":"Anybody really good at math?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;m taking a math placement exam tonight, and was going through a practice test because my math skills have been in hibernation for a looooooong time.  I think the last time I actually opened a math book was 10 years ago.  I&#8217;m going back to school to (hopefully) become a nurse, and (possibly) eventually a CDE somewhere down the line.  <\/p>\n<p> I did relatively well &#8212; I needed to look a few things up (formulas and some such) but I think I&#8217;m pretty well prepared for the test.  There is one question, however, which I have NO idea how to solve.  <\/p>\n<p>3^4 \u0096 (-8.3) (-10) -20<\/p>\n<p>The answer key says this somehow is equal to -22.  Can anyone explain how this is done &#8212; without a calculator?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking a math placement exam tonight, and was going through a practice test because my math skills have been in hibernation for a looooooong time. I think the last time I actually opened a math book was 10 years ago. I&#8217;m going back to school to (hopefully) become a nurse, and (possibly) eventually a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2DvH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}