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Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

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Algebra Jokes

Q: Why was the student afraid of the y-intercept?
A: She thought she'd be stung by the b.
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Q: Who invented algebra?
A: A Clever X-pert.
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Q: Why did the imaginary number turn red?
A: It ran out of i-drops.
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Q: How does a ghost solve a quadratic equation?
A: By completing the scare.
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Q: What do you call a rodent with babies?
A: A quad-rat-ic parent.
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Q: Why did the polynomial plant wilt?
A: Its roots were imaginary.
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Q: How do you know that your dentist studied algebra?
A: She said all that candy gave me exponential decay.
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Q: Why did the doctor send the expression to a psychiatrist?
A: Because it wasn't rational.
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Q: Why are you drumming on your algebra book with two big sticks?
A: Because we are studying log rhythms.
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Q: How can you tell when a factorial is enthusiastic?
A: It's always enthusiastic- it has an exclamation point!
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Q: What wild animal is good at algebra?
A: The tangent lion.
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Q: Why are you so negative?
A: Just take me for my absolute value.
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