Yeah really, that's true.

Last night: y=3x if 3x = 12 what's y?

Geez ... if it was so important to know, why haven't I needed algebra since I left high school. I can honestly say there has been exactly one time when I was trying to figure out an unknown quanity and I had three known quantities. I knew that I needed to use an alegrebic equation to figure it out, but it had been over 25 years since I left high school, so I forgot it.

Seems to me that it would be better for them to teach kids useful stuff like if according to the package a serving of Hagen Daas ice cream is 40 grams and a tub of Hagen Daas is 250 grams, how much fat are you going to ingest when you eat the whole carton?

Michael