why some people ask very easy questions in math?

Question

please give your views.

Answer 1

Because they refuse to read their textbook and do their own homework, especially when know they can trust someone who really wants points to do it for them.

Answer 2

It depends on your definition of easy. I suppose that mine would include finding the derivative of a polynomial. For others, that would just bring about the response, "Huh?". Different people have different levels of mathematics study.

Now, I will go along with you when people ask insanely easy maths problems that even my cats can do, such as what 2 + 2 is. For those, I suspect that it is more of an assessment of what kind of responses that the question will generate. On those, I think that it is appropriate to give a weird answer, such as 2 + 2 = 11 (base 3).

Answer 3

Some people asking are in 7th grade summer school.
Some people haven't done math in a long while, and they need it as a "tangential" requirement to graduate, and therefore they have alot of work to do in a short summer class. Sometimes, with internet college courses, it's difficult to get good help from professors that are 1000 miles away.

Not everyone knows what you know. And they might know about something you do not. Best stance is to give thorough answers with explanations suited to the level of math in the question.

Answer 4

I think it is reasonable to give the questioner the benefit of the doubt, and show a step by step solution with rational commentary.

Some people do not readily grasp concepts in a classroom situation, and some teachers ought to be doing something else other than teaching math, I'm sorry to say.

Of course, if the same person continues to ask essentially the same question, then???

Answer 5

In some cases, the answers may seem very easy to you, but not to the person who asks.

The people who ask "What does 2 + 2 =" are abusers.

Answer 6

Most of them are abusers. They are seeking the points that are given out. I already found one person who uses their account to ask a question. The person has a separate account to answer their own question. This person then selects their own answer and chooses it as the best. You can see how easily the points rack up in this case.

Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Because they don't want to do their own homework, or pay attention in class.

I wish I saw this when I had stats, I would of asked other people to do my homework for me.

Answer 8

A lot of times, you can answer that by rememebering the phrase: "No child left behind my @55!"

Answer 9

Anything is easy once you know how. Easy to you, but hard to someone who doesn't know how.

Answer 10

more importantly, why are we doing these people's homework for them? doesn't anyone else recognize these problems from their HS calc and college stats classes?