There is no valid argument anywhere to make this ambiguous [/thread]
the fact that I accedently clicked the wrong button is another thing. But write it out 48 x 12 / 2 and you really can't get it wrong
Edit: If you still don't see it, you're putting invisible brackets around 2(9+3) for absolutely no reason
lol, i was wrong but it's still not ambiguous. you expand the brackets before any other mathematical operation meaning that there will in fact be an invisible bracket around the 2(9+3). 48/2*12 = 288 tho but this should end up as 2
My logic tells me 2 and I think was the way I was taught however BEDMAS says 288 and there are different rules you can go by to get either answer. Therefore tis useless us arguing it as we can all find "rules" either way...
1. Do what is in the brackets first.
2. Do multiplication and division next in the order that it comes.
3. Do addition and subtraction next in the order that it comes.
1. Do what is in the brackets first.
2. Do multiplication and division next in the order that it comes.
3. Do addition and subtraction next in the order that it comes.
1. Do what is in the brackets first.
2. Do multiplication and division next in the order that it comes.
3. Do addition and subtraction next in the order that it comes.
Therefore the answer would be 2.
Not sure why I am responding but ...
48 / 2 * (9+3)
= 48 / 2 * 12
= 24 * 12
= 288
you did
48 / 2 * (9+3)
= 48 / 2 * 12
= 48/24
= 2
To get your answer you need the equation written as
48/(2*(9+3))
1. Do what is in the brackets first.
2. Do multiplication and division next in the order that it comes.
3. Do addition and subtraction next in the order that it comes.
Therefore the answer would be 2.
It does not indicate what to do with the 2 and the brackets so you automatically add.
eg 48 divide by 2 x (9+3) 48 divide by 2 - (9+3) etc...
1. Do what is in the brackets first.
2. Do multiplication and division next in the order that it comes.
3. Do addition and subtraction next in the order that it comes.
Therefore the answer would be 2.
After doing this more slowly, the correct answer is indeed 288. I have to stop trying to do this shit between jobs at work.
Unless math has changed from the 50s it's 2.
However I could argue that the answer is 69 based on the agruments put forth so far. (How about 68 and I will owe you one)
There is no multiplication sign between the 2 and the bracket, they are to be considered together as part of the same equation. 2(9+3). Then you consider the next part of the equation. With the mutiplication sign between the 2 and the bracket then there is room for discussion.
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the fact that I accedently clicked the wrong button is another thing. But write it out 48 x 12 / 2 and you really can't get it wrong
Edit: If you still don't see it, you're putting invisible brackets around 2(9+3) for absolutely no reason
lol, i was wrong but it's still not ambiguous. you expand the brackets before any other mathematical operation meaning that there will in fact be an invisible bracket around the 2(9+3). 48/2*12 = 288 tho but this should end up as 2
Sorta like a house rule in poker...
There's no one right answer.
Mark
Excel comes up with 288
Mark
I think 2 would be a good answer. LOL
FMP
Well, now we know where you get some of your poker reasoning from ;-)
LOL @ other forum references....
1. Do what is in the brackets first.
2. Do multiplication and division next in the order that it comes.
3. Do addition and subtraction next in the order that it comes.
Therefore the answer would be 2.
This. Aren't calculators an awesome invention?!
Brackets first, so 9+3 = 12
Multiplication and division are next, performed in the order they appear, so . . .
the remaining equation looks like this
48 divided by 2 multiplied by 12
24 x 12 = 288
QED
Not sure why I am responding but ...
48 / 2 * (9+3)
= 48 / 2 * 12
= 24 * 12
= 288
you did
48 / 2 * (9+3)
= 48 / 2 * 12
= 48/24
= 2
To get your answer you need the equation written as
48/(2*(9+3))
eg 48 divide by 2 x (9+3) 48 divide by 2 - (9+3) etc...
This, my friends is the second sign of the Apocalypse . . . Hobbes and I agree.
that's what I thought too at first but everything connected to the bracket should be calculated first. you wouldn't read 48/2x as 48x/2 after all
After doing this more slowly, the correct answer is indeed 288. I have to stop trying to do this shit between jobs at work.
However I could argue that the answer is 69 based on the agruments put forth so far. (How about 68 and I will owe you one)
kind of on the right track here....but the answer is:
48÷2(9+3)= What you do with the 3rd wire.
That's algebra though.
:-\
+1
Excel is smarts. It say 288.
I choose that.
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