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Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:24 am to East Coast Band
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Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:24 am to East Coast Band
These are so gay because you don’t use a division sign. It would be 48 over 2 and it would be clear how to solve it. These problems are notated in a dumbass way to confuse people. I refuse to participate in such dumbassery.
This post was edited on 5/31/25 at 7:25 am
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:25 am to Lonnie Utah
quote:
Never wonder about these again. Google math solver
The sad part is this wasn’t even a hard one.
48/2(9+3)
Parentheses first.
48/2x12
Div AND Mult LEFT to right
24x12
It’s 288
This post was edited on 5/31/25 at 7:27 am
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:26 am to East Coast Band
Do you even PEMDAS bro?
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:26 am to LSUtiger89
Yall need to learn order of operations.
Blah,blah,blah.....
Blah,blah,blah.....
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:29 am to windmill
Well he got the shite wrong. So you can blah to being a dumbass all you want.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:33 am to PJinAtl
quote:
Because once you solve the addition problem inside the parenthesis the 2(12) becomes a multiplication step, which is equal to the division step. Since the division step comes first when reading left to right you divide 48 by 2 to get 24. You then multiply 24 by 12 to get 288.
But the 2 is part of the parenthesis part. 2(9+3)......(2*9 + 2*3).....(24)
Also the state I leaned math is always ranks higher than Louisiana. Maybe this is example on why y'all on the bottom of the barrel?
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:37 am to speedybaw
No 2 is not a part of the parenthesis. It’s outside of the parentheses. Once you solve for the parentheses it’s no longer parentheses and is just multiplication. If your state is higher, you were bottom of the barrel below Louisiana. This was easy math.
48/2(9+3)
Parentheses first. Once solved for parentheses it’s just multiplication.
48/2x12
Div AND Mult LEFT to right
24x12
It’s 288
mathematicians explain 48/2(9+3)
For it to be two it would have to be…48/(2(9+3))
48/2(9+3)
Parentheses first. Once solved for parentheses it’s just multiplication.
48/2x12
Div AND Mult LEFT to right
24x12
It’s 288
mathematicians explain 48/2(9+3)
For it to be two it would have to be…48/(2(9+3))
This post was edited on 5/31/25 at 7:44 am
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:40 am to East Coast Band
I'm answering 2 while dropping a 2 in the toilet.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:41 am to PJinAtl
quote:
Because once you solve the addition problem inside the parenthesis the 2(12) becomes a multiplication step, which is equal to the division step. Since the division step comes first when reading left to right you divide 48 by 2 to get 24. You then multiply 24 by 12 to get 288.
For some reason I always thought when there was no x between the number and open parentheses - which would look like 2 x (12) in this example - it’s essentially attached to the result of what’s in the ( ). In this way it’s basically acting as an exponent would, obviously not exponential but nevertheless multiplicative. Why else would multiplication be able to written both ways, but not other functions do?
And further, I could see how understanding the equation this way could have a real life application, rather than just being an ambiguous math problem.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:47 am to OceanMan
The parentheses are dropped off once you solve for the parentheses. So it strictly becomes 2x12. Not 2x(12).
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:23 am to LSUtiger89
Mathcad Prime 10.0.1.0 solves it like this:
Again, with constants assigned:
Again, with constants assigned:
This post was edited on 5/31/25 at 8:30 am
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:31 am to Roll Tide Ravens
quote:Misspelled “sturgeon”, C.W.
The doctor is the boy’s mother.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:31 am to Gaston
The internet loves this problem because of the ambiguity in the ÷ symbol: does it capture everything to the right of it or not?
Of course, if it did, we'd need to alter PEMDAS to POEMDAS
O - Obelus (÷) (yes I had to look this up)
And now we need a mnemonic
People
Only
Eat
Meat
Days
And
Saturdays
Of course, if it did, we'd need to alter PEMDAS to POEMDAS
O - Obelus (÷) (yes I had to look this up)
And now we need a mnemonic
People
Only
Eat
Meat
Days
And
Saturdays
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:37 am to East Coast Band
I was told there would be no Math on the OT.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:41 am to LSUtiger89
The number on the parentheses orders the operation. This is THE math program…
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:52 am to forkedintheroad
quote:
The internet loves this problem because of the ambiguity in the ÷ symbol: does it capture everything to the right of it or not?
That’s not the trick at all.
It’s that most people know PEMDAS but think you follow it strictly (so did I from education, it’s only when these fad challenges came up I learned otherwise.
Really it’s
PE
MD
AS
and when you have operations of the same tier, you go left to right.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:54 am to East Coast Band
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This post was edited on 5/31/25 at 9:13 am
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:54 am to Gaston
So, you have 48 apples in a barrel. The long horizontal line means you are dividing or taking some number from below the line.
If you are taking away apples, how do you end up with more?
If you are taking away apples, how do you end up with more?
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