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re: Bizarre Math Question and Answer breaks the internet - Sorry if already posted
Posted on 4/16/15 at 9:56 am to snoggerT
Posted on 4/16/15 at 9:56 am to snoggerT
quote:Yeah. I mean I think we can all agree that it could have been written to leave out any room to interpet it different. My point has been as written it comes to 288. My problem with the answer 2 is to come to that answer either you have to make an assumption of implied parantheses--which is defensible--or you misapply the order of operations--which is not defensible.
- Well, that was my point. If written properly, an equation can be solved either way because the numbers are defined with an exact purpose in the equation. As long as you don't change that numbers purpose in the equation, you can solve it any way you want.
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Posted on 4/16/15 at 10:17 am to buckeye_vol
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Yeah. I mean I think we can all agree that it could have been written to leave out any room to interpet it different. My point has been as written it comes to 288. My problem with the answer 2 is to come to that answer either you have to make an assumption of implied parantheses--which is defensible--or you misapply the order of operations--which is not defensible.
I don't completely agree, because the way it is written isn't exactly defined, so it can be solved 2 ways and if you went RtoL, it's an all together different equation.
I asked my old calculus teacher his thoughts on it, and he said: "48/2(9+3) is ambiguous. one should write it either as (48/2)(9+3) or 48/(2(9+3)). "
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