I recall in my algebra classes students being exasperated and asking repeatedly what if anything this has to do with any real world application. The answer was

I recall in my algebra classes students being exasperated and asking repeatedly what if anything this has to do with any real world application. The answer was always "theres a lot of applications if you get a math job" to which we all groaned imagining counting cups of skittles and mentally dividing while the computers sat idle...