^ Same with excel (288)

The big difference is the ÷ symbol. If it were written 48/2, than the argument can be made for 2, but because it's ÷ the answer is 288.

84 pages arguing the answer lol
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=133389973

Troll question: ambiguity sparks debate.

I can totally see the people from The Real Hustle giving a question like this as a skill testing question for some fake non-existent prize.

BEDMAS works. You just need to know how to use BEDMAS. The answer is 288. 48÷2(9+3) is the same as 48 ÷ 2 x (9 + 3). Whoever thinks 2 is part of the bracket is wrong.

Fuck you, OP. RS is full of grade school dropouts that weren't listening during the BEDMAS and order of operations lessons. Therefore, this thread will never end. Even on something as absolute as math.

There's only 1 answer to this stupid equation, and it's 288. I'm sorry, but you're a fucking moron if you think otherwise.

The parameters of BEDMAS are not hard to follow. Stuff in brackets first, then from multiplication or division (going left to right).

48/2(9+3) BRACKETS
48/2(12) DIVIDE or MULTIPLY (from left to right)
24(12)
288 Answer

/thread

holy shit, this is grade 10 math....now I can understand why some of the posts here on revscene have no relevance to the OP....Shitty Chinglish and now terrible math skills.

eleventeen?

Its a poorly written equation. Just tried this in my development environment and it won't even pass compilation. 2(9+3) is ambiguous.

Fuck... I used up all my fails in this thread. I'm sure others will take the reins and fail all those suckers that got 2. Also, someone please fail the post right above this one, too.

no guys its 42

I think this is where shit gets messed up. You can look at this 2 different ways. You either do the 48/2 first, or because you see the bracket around the 12 you do the 2(12) first. This question is just trying to troll the shit out of people, 84 pages on bodybuilding.com just proves that.

48/2(9+3)

48/2(12)

48/24

=

2

:troll:

Typed verbatim into my Sharp scientific calculator, It gets 2.

All you idiots are hung up on the brackets. The only thing you need to worry about, in regards to brackets, is the equation within the brackets.

Here:
For those confused: 48/2(12) can also be written as:
48/2*12.

Apply BEDMAS to that, and you get 288.

an easier way to do this is to split it into numerator and denominator.
so it's 48 over 2(9+3)...you first take the multiples of two so 2 becomes 1 and 48 becomes 24....so it's now 24 over (9+3)..which is 2.

I have to be honest here, I forgot what the E in BEDMAS stood for :devil:

Damn you troll math!

don't want to thread jack, but can someone please confirm my math

1/0 =
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Well, you could also write that equation as:

48
______
2(12)

Which is what I assume my calculator is doing.

yeap except you meant 48

Yeah, typo. :p

good god.. this explains a lot on RS. i can't believe there's a debate on this.

Actually, re-written it's:

48
__ * 12
2

You still can't ignore BEDMAS.

I stand by my calculator. It was programmed by those with much more math skills than either you or I.

just say 2=X ... so the question will be 48/X(9+3) ..... answer is 2

u have to do 2(9+3) first, unless the question is 2*(9+3) then answer would be 288

you'd punch it in as (48/2(9+3)) = 48/24 = 2....


engineering FTW