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?

[NoMercy]

Maths homework? ;)

[donny48]

Battery gone in calculator ? xx

[donny48]

Is this a real question or is it based on the route to the peak being not straight ?

[Cloverjo]

Judging by Buzz's previous questions, he/she is an adult with with a home and children. Quite why Buzz is asking this question is a puzzle in itself.

[mikey4444]

Buzz...this took about 5 seconds on my calculator....try it on yours and see what it gives you !

[aelmpvw]

i keep thinking it must be a trick question

[buzzlightyea]

My child put 3484 metres but got marked wrong....

just making sure im not going mad

[EDDIE51]

8848-5364 = 3479
Have you not learnt basic maths?

[dannyk13]

Have another try Eddie- answer is 3484

[EDDIE51]

Sorry pressed the wrong button. Yes the answer is 3484!
The teacher is wrong

[buzzlightyea]

Sorry i typed the question wrong..Face palm..

But even with the correct sum it still comes to 3484!!

[-Talbot-]

Just the 1 wrong button, EDDIE?

[dannyk13]

Buzz, a couple of questions:-
How old is your child?
Would the teacher want the method rather than the answer?

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe you need to move your child to a school with a better reputation.

[DTCwordfan]

As you debate the merits of this, Everest is getting ever higher with the collision of the Indian plate into the Eurasian one, so, at some point, the answer may change.

[Prudie]

LOl (have to laugh)
have you not learnt basic maths?....sorry pressed the wrong button

[Mamyalynne]

Did all her classmates have a different answer?

The teacher should explain.

[ducksie]

Prudie, that was funny, EDDIE you did make me chuckle, OP the teacher must have been getting weary correcting and made a mistake, put incorrect instead of tick. It's a simple mistake as you can see ^^ but enough to knock your child's confidence in handing up their work, if it was me, next day I was dropping my child to school I would just nicely say it to him/her and maybe buy teacher a calculator for Christmas

[Baldric]

///Sorry pressed the wrong button///

At least two wrong buttons imo.

[New Judge]

I use strange methods when undertaking mental arithmetic (which this is - no calculators are necessary). I deducted 5364 from the nearest thousand (6000) and got 636. (I even arrive at this by a convoluted method, saying that 36 is needed to round up 364 to 400 and 400 is 600 less that 1000, so the answer 36 + 600). Then I took 6000 from 8848 (easy, 2848). Then I added the 636 to 2848 to get to 3484.

At school we were encouraged to find the easiest way (for each of us individually) to do these sums. I've always found this method the easiest in most cases but I use all sorts of convoluted methods. Took me about ten seconds - far less than it would have done to find my calculator (and probably find a new battery to go in it because it is seldom used). Not everybody's favourite methodology but it works for me.

By the way, buzz, there was a "homework" question on here a couple of weeks ago where the information given in the question was clearly incorrect:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/How-it-Works/Question1577929.html

So it's unlikely you are missing anything but more likely that shoddy teaching is to blame.