6/2(1+2)=?

[JOVE23]

Discuss.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

kill yourself

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

this whole "trolling by writing bad equations" thing is getting real old... its all about how you interpret a poorly written equation.

 

[sth]

No math! I specifically got a history degree to avoid math.

 

[JOVE23]

this whole "trolling by writing bad equations" thing is getting real old... its all about how you interpret a poorly written equation.

problem?

And to be perfectly honest I answered 1 the 1st time I saw this and got ground into the dust by one of my buddies on another forum.

 

[bri]

this whole "trolling by writing bad equations" thing is getting real old... its all about how you interpret a poorly written equation.

Stu, who appointed you the AyaTrollah? Some people may like this stuff, so you should be willing to trollerate it for their sake.

 

[BiscuitintheBasket]

Dany!

 

[supraman]

I voted the way I was taught and I was taught that it equals 9.

 

[chasman]

They way I was taught it's 9

 

[winos5]

9



I hate math.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

I do think it was nice of Jove to at least give a problem that either way jako and TCD can get their answer by counting on their fingers!

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

I can tell you the color space in XDCam and the compression rates that it records in...

The answer is 1?

You do parenthetical math first?

Maybe it's time to be Billy Madison and go back to school again.

 

[bri]

They way I was taught it's 9

I thought they didn't have math in your day. Wasn't it like arithmetic or something?

 

[Tater]

I thought they didn't have math in your day. Wasn't it like arithmetic or something?

He used a slide ruler.

 

[MassHavoc]

It's 1... how the hell were you taught differently? No wonder the education system is a bust.

 

[bri]

He used a slide ruler.

You mean an abacus, don't you?

 

[Ton]

9... the question is, how were you taught Mass?

 

[LaurenNMU]

i got 1 because of the way it was written. If it was written this way (6/2)(1+2) it would be 9 without a doubt. its just a badly written equation, some people divide 6 by 2 then multiply and others multiply the 2 since its directly next to the parenthesis. Order of operations: PEMDAS Parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction

 

[Tater]

i got 1 because of the way it was written. If it was written this way (6/2)(1+2) it would be 9 without a doubt. its just a badly written equation, some people divide 6 by 2 then multiply and others multiply the 2 since its directly next to the parenthesis. Order of operations: PEMDAS Parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction

I knew a recent/current student could straighten us all out.

 

[supraman]

i got 1 because of the way it was written. If it was written this way (6/2)(1+2) it would be 9 without a doubt. its just a badly written equation, some people divide 6 by 2 then multiply and others multiply the 2 since its directly next to the parenthesis. Order of operations: PEMDAS Parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction

See I was taught multiplication or division, addition or subtraction and go from left to right then



so 6/2(1+2) becomes 6/2*3

so then it becomes 3*3 which equals 9