48

[Ronith]

What is your answer?

[MTG]

The answer is 288.

[Ronith]

Answer is 2, bro.

[Jubjubb]

48

[MTG]

It could be 2 or 288

48

[IndigoSunset]

[QUOTE=Pomster;76749]48

[Ronith]

[QUOTE=Pomster;76749]48

[Slasher]

48/2(9+3)
48/2*12
24*12
288
How did you get 2? xD

[Jubjubb]

OH WAIT. Im asian failing.


It is 288

-crawls away in sadness-

[Carrot]

288 is the answer.

[Slasher]

Parentheses first, division and multiplication from left to right after?

[MTG]

It depends on how you do the order of operations, but both answers are correct.

[Jubjubb]

288 is the only answer :(

[IndigoSunset]

It depends on the order of operations, but both answers are correct.

Multiplication and Division are equal in the order of operations. For operations of equal order, you simply work from left to right. So the answer is 288. 2 is wrong.

[Slasher]

It depends on how you do the order of operations, but both answers are correct.

Poke post before. You can't have two answers xD

[Ronith]

Parentheses---(9+3) = 12
Exponential---none
Mulitply 2(12) = 24
Divide 48/24 = 2
Add---none
Subtract---none

------p--------m-------d---answer
48

[MTG]

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Both are right.

[Jubjubb]

[QUOTE=Ronith;76765]Parentheses---(9+3) = 12
Exponential---none
Mulitply 2(12) = 24
Divide 48/24 = 2
Add---none
Subtract---none

------p--------m-------d---answer
48

[Bailey]

You should do it in order of pemdas that's the one thing I remember from algebra lol

[IndigoSunset]

--multiply comes before divide.

That is incorrect. They occur simultaneously, same as addition/subtraction. Since that's obviously impossible to do in practice, you work from left to right.

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Also, what's PEMDAS? We were always taught BIDMAS(I guess it's the english version)

[Jubjubb]

That is incorrect. They occur simultaneously, same as addition/subtraction. Since that's obviously impossible to do in practice, you work from left to right.

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Also, what's PEMDAS? We were always taught BIDMAS(I guess it's the english version)

I was taught with BEDMAS xD

[Slasher]

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Both are right.

Have you at least read what the site is saying? xD

"If there are two or more operations with equal precedence (such as 10

[Ronith]

I'm in Ontario and that was how I got taught ;p

[Slasher]

PEDMAS and BEDMAS are the same I guess. I learned with pedmas.

[Ronith]

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[Slasher]

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"Inputting the problem on different calculators can lead to different results depending on if the calculator is non-scientific or scientific, and how the calculator interprets order of operations.
There are considerable arguments for both answers, but the general consensus is that writing ambiguous fractions like “2/6x” makes solving such problems confusing, and it is considered bad form to write ambiguously written fractions in the first place."

[fairydust201]

they beat me to it =(

[Reemer]

My calculator says 288. CALCULATORS ARE NEVER WRONG!!!1

[Kristin]

You don't work left to right if the problem has brackets or parentheses in it. You do the parenthesis first.

[John]

the answer is two.

parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction. that is always the order.

[zxzero]

I was taught with BEDMAS xD

I was thinking the same thing lol, I was like wtf are these people doing.. jk peoples but, BEDMAS is correct, brackets first

[bamag]

Its 288 cuz WolframAlpha says so:
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[zxzero]

Its 288 cuz WolframAlpha says so:
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Yea, it is 288.
48/2(9+3) Brackets first.
48/2(12) Division comes before multiplication. (and there is nothing left to do with the 12, at this moment)
24(12) Now we multiply.
288

[n00ne]

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Lool, the fixed the bug in the new version :P.

288. Don't mess with a calculator.

[Reemer]

I'll ask my calculus teacher tomorrow and officially straighten this out

[Slasher]

You have an option to put your calculator in "scientific" or normal mode. Like tiny calculator not doing pedmas.

[Zane]

I got 288

This reminds me so much of the question where something is divided by 0 and a majority of people on facebook got it wrong by ignoring PEDMAS/BEDMAS.

[Slasher]

^So true. Easy questions and so much people insulting each others because they have the wrong answer.

[bamag]

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Lmao.

[IndigoSunset]

I guess it's highlighting a failure in the maths education worldwide that people learn BIDMAS/BODMAS/PEDMAS and apply it religiously rather than thinking about what it actually means. Also shows how over-simplification of something can easily lead to the wrong solution.

[zxzero]

^So true. Easy questions and so much people insulting each others because they have the wrong answer.

I was just kidding about the little insult. I hope no one took it to heart :O

[Ryan~]

24*12 = 288.

[Khelddar]

288 is the answer :)

[Ray-Chill]

The answer is 2 ...
Remember P.E.M.D.A.S
You do the parenthesis then multiplication.. then division..
So
48/2(9+3) = 48/2(12) = 48/24
Your wrong if you do it any other way.. rules of math people.

[Bathus]

The answer is 2 ...
Remember P.E.M.D.A.S
You do the parenthesis then multiplication.. then division..
So
48/2(9+3) = 48/2(12) = 48/24
Your wrong if you do it any other way.. rules of math people.

^this. That's how I was taught, anyway.

[Ray-Chill]

=] You where taught that because it's the rule of math. =]
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[bamag]

The answer is 2 ...
Remember P.E.M.D.A.S
You do the parenthesis then multiplication.. then division..
So
48/2(9+3) = 48/2(12) = 48/24
Your wrong if you do it any other way.. rules of math people.

You might want to read some of the previous posts... Its multiplication OR division, not multiplication then division (if there's both, you do it from left to right).

[Ray-Chill]

Hmmm.. Time to consult my math teacher.. xD
Or at least my math solving website..
I'm pretty sure in this case you should do the multiplication first. Hmmm

I'll get back to you on that.

[IndigoSunset]

Your wrong if you do it any other way.. rules of math people.

Lol, you're right it is the rules of maths. You just seem confused as to what they are. If PEMDAS were to be so strictly applied as an order, why does the UK learn BIDMAS? That way we'd have different maths depending on where you are at the time. And one of the basic points of maths is that it's a universal language ;)

[Ray-Chill]

You sir.. Are correct. xD

[bamag]

1) Perform the operations inside a parenthesis first
2) Then exponents
3) Then multiplication and division, from left to right
4) Then addition and subtraction, from left to right
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You feel inclined to do 2(9+3) first but its actually 48/2 first.
Nobody uses the division sign anyways, most people just use / lol

[Ray-Chill]

xD I think that if i would have used the / instead of the division I would have realized. Lol
Tricky problem.

[IndigoSunset]

You feel inclined to do 2(9+3) first but its actually 48/2 first.
Nobody uses the division sign anyways, most people just use / lol

Weeeeell, technically you do the (9+3) first and then 48/2 but I don't suppose that matters too much :P

[bamag]

Weeellll technically 2(9+3) = 2(12) sooooo :D

[Sci_Girl]

I was taught BEDMAS in elementary school and it "must occur in a left to right order". I use calculators now and according to my calculator it says 288 so I will go with that until someone asks their calc prof and he or she says otherwise lol.

[Slasher]

I learned how to calculate those type of questions when I was 12, c'mon guys!

[Kiminess]

[COLOR="#f75a6d"][SIZE=1]I'm no good at math, period. However, I just did the problem the way I was taught and got 288.

48

[loucamente]

288...
but if you use another logic, can be another answer ^^

But if was: 48