re: Solve this math problem

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It's an operation in a sense that it is a fraction but the problem already establishes an actual division sign. Therefore 1/3 is actually .33333

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We can only determine it's (1/3) from the picture, which was provided 6 hours after the original problem. The way the OP has written the problem, even after showing the picture, would still result in 9.

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Sure. But given that the OP's original answer was 7, then we couldn't even infer that it was a syntax issue.

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I just took it that OP had multiple issues.

He thought that addition came before subtraction. Maybe PEMDAS should be PE(MD)(AS).

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It's an operation in a sense that it is a fraction but the problem already establishes an actual division sign. Therefore 1/3 is actually .33333

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1/3 is 1 divided by 3. In this problem however, without (), the 3 divided by 1 comes first

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We can only determine it's (1/3) from the picture, which was provided 6 hours after the original problem. The way the OP has written the problem, even after showing the picture, would still result in 9.

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Ok but it's still one haha

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You can't have 2 different division signs. 1/3 =.3333 in the problem.

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We can only determine it's (1/3) from the picture, which was provided 6 hours after the original problem. The way the OP has written the problem, even after showing the picture, would still result in 9.

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You can find comfort in knowing the 40% of Japanese 20 year olds got it wrong as well.

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No. This:

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9-3÷1/3+1=

Is 9.

This:

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9-3÷(1/3)+1=

Is 1.

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The most common mistake is writing the 1/3 as:

9 – 3 ÷ 1/3 + 1

Most calculators will not group the 1/3, so the calculator evaluates:

9 – 3/1/3 + 1
= 9 – 3/3 + 1
= 9 – 1 + 1
= 9

The correct answer is found by grouping 1/3 with parentheses and following the order of operations, with division taking precedence.

9 – 3 ÷ (1/3) + 1
= 9 – 9 + 1
= 0 + 1
= 1

The correct answer is 1.

My question is why you nerds using a calculator?

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The correct answer is found by grouping 1/3 with parentheses

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So you change the problem, got it


What color is the sky?

Computers incorrectly groups the question as , "what color is the sky, and gives the answer blue.

To find the answer, you must first correctly change the question to what color is grass. Then, you get the correct answer of green

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Most calculators will not group the 1/3, so the calculator evaluates:

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It's not just an issue specific to calculators; it's a broader issue of syntax the requires specific logical operators for everything (e.g., ^ for exponent), which is the case in operations written on here.

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The correct answer is found by grouping 1/3 with parentheses and following the order of operations, with division taking precedence.

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Which you did not do.

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My question is why you nerds using a calculator?

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One doesn't need to calculator to evaluate an expression that requires the same syntax as a calculator.

In other words, you wrote the problem incorrectly.