48÷2(9+3)
 

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2 Or 288?
BEDMAS? Or No?

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I can't tell if you are serious.


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its 2 we all know it but the computer reads it as 48÷2 & 9+3 then it end up with 24x12=288 in this case no one cares so me explaining it was useless

Why is it 2, and not 288? :troll:

its 48÷2= 24 x (9+3) = 288.....

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i be damn if this makes it to the fight club

sigh....


48/2*(9+3)

parentheses then left to right as multiplication doesn't take precedence over division (they're equal and so you go left to right)

so it becomes 48/2*12


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this was even posted on a trader forum, and all the traders got 288 and the non traders were freaking out cuz they got 2


here's a new way that bedmas/pedmas/pemdas/etc is explained

should have put a third possible answer.............

LOL WUT?

It's 288... because you need to solve the bracket first and the compute in order... so the question becomes

48÷2*(12)-->48÷2=24-->24*12=288.

Whoever getting 2 as result got confused with the bracket and thought it as..

48÷[2*(9+3)]

the original bracket was on 9+3.. but not the 2*... so you can't multiply them first and then settle the division.

you do the multiples then dividen then do the plus or minus

Why'd you have to bring this from the Misc, WHY

I couldn't even figure out how people were getting 2, thanks for posting that lol.

How the fuck... I couldn't understand how anyone could get 2. That's pretty fail.

I got 288...But I can also see why people would say 2.

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to be honest, i read it as 48 / 2 (9 + 3)

If I had to give an answer I'd say 2 because more than likely the person giving this question intended it to be 2, but this is a definitely a troll question because it is ambiguous.

ambiguous and definitely bad form. I've had friends who took calc after me (same course but one semester after) ask me for help and occasionally stuff like this comes up and I'd have to ask them to clarify because they don't bother putting brackets where they should.

PS. wow haven't seen anyone use the "÷" symbol in years.


edited as i explained better in later posts

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48÷2(9+3) = 2

(48÷2)(9+3) = 288

bracket(s) solve first - Grade 5 Math?

This puzzles me.

48÷2(9+3)

2 is part of the brackets

you can also think of it like this

__48__
2(9+3)

answer is 2

I got 2. If BEDMAS being drilled into you in HS doesn't work....then you got some problems if you do those skill testing questions they make you do if you wanna win stuff haha. You need to get rid of all brackets before moving onto the next operation i think. And as someone noted above, proper brackets are missing, so this just makes how to solve the question difficult and ambiguous on how to answer it.

I saw it as:
48÷2(9+3)
BRACKETS
48/2(12)
MULTIPLY(to get rid of all brackets first)
48/24
DIVIDE
2

I believe the answer is 5.

Google knows all.

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Who the fuck still uses ÷??

When you are in university it becomes "/". And yea, need more brackets to get a definite answer.
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