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re: Bizarre Math Question and Answer breaks the internet - Sorry if already posted
Posted on 4/15/15 at 1:57 pm to therick711
Posted on 4/15/15 at 1:57 pm to therick711
The way the question is written is ambiguous and 2 and 288 should both be acceptable answers.
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Posted on 4/15/15 at 1:57 pm to GRTiger
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For those who say the answer is 2, what is the answer to this one:
5-2+3
Its a polar bear because you're in the north pole
Posted on 4/15/15 at 1:57 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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WELL, then exactly how the fricking equation is written both 2 and 288 are correct answers worth 100% credit
Mike... just stop.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 1:58 pm to LSUtoOmaha
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The way the question is written is ambiguous and 2 and 288 should both be acceptable answers.
No. You add 9+3 and then work from left to right. It's the only way.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 1:58 pm to Ross
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These things are so stupid. Replace the divided by symbol with fractional notation and most of this confusion goes away. It's a test in PEMDAS, and nothing else.
You didn't solve the equation.
You manipulated it and then solved it
Posted on 4/15/15 at 1:59 pm to therick711
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Wolfram Alpha and correct application of order of operations say it is 288, so get over it everyone.
But DirtyMike says it's 2
Posted on 4/15/15 at 1:59 pm to Breesus
You think the answer is 0, don't you? 
Posted on 4/15/15 at 1:59 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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You didn't solve the equation.
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solved it
Posted on 4/15/15 at 2:00 pm to terd ferguson
No I don't I said it's both
48/2(9+3) = 288
but that's not the equation now is it
48/2(9+3) = 288
but that's not the equation now is it
Posted on 4/15/15 at 2:00 pm to Croacka
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I can't find it but I had a picture of 2 different calculators giving 2 different answers.
Mine gives both if written the below ways:
48 / 2 x (9+3) = 288
48 / 2(9x3) = 2
This was a PE approved Casio fx-115 btw. The "x" is the key here.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 2:00 pm to GRTiger
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For those who say the answer is 2, what is the answer to this one: 5-2+3
Posted on 4/15/15 at 2:00 pm to GRTiger
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You think the answer is 0, don't you?
There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that. PEMDAS? It's just a bullshite word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shite.
This post was edited on 4/15/15 at 2:01 pm
Posted on 4/15/15 at 2:01 pm to KosmoCramer
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOT THIS shite AGAIN....
OOOOOOT THIS shite AGAIN....
Posted on 4/15/15 at 2:02 pm to DrEdgeLSU
Posted on 4/15/15 at 2:03 pm to crankbait
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FYI, M and D are on the same level and are performed left to right, then A and S are on the same level and performed left to right...not in the order MDAS
This is how it's done. M/D and A/S are interchangeable. Worked from left to right. You guys are morons.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 2:03 pm to StinkBait72
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PE approved casio
I should be making last minute preps for this instead of posting in this damn thread
Posted on 4/15/15 at 2:04 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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I don't give a frick about your lunchpail reasons. I'm right
You're not right, and you not caring about the why is probably why you ended up as a CM instead of an engineer....
Posted on 4/15/15 at 2:04 pm to PhiTiger1764
MATLAB, Python, c+, c++, Wolfram Alpha, Google, PHP, Perl, and Ruby all say 288
Posted on 4/15/15 at 2:05 pm to lsupride87
But are you entering "/" instead of a division sign? That's the only reason for any debate.
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