# 48÷2(9+3)=? **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862 **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic **Created:** [April 12, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862 "2011-04-12T21:21:40Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 7
### Author: ![LKSi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lksi/32/6316_2.png) [@LKSi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LKSi) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 9:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/121 "2011-04-13T09:36:21Z")
LOCK 1 ---
### Author: ![psi2high](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/psi2high/32/6320_2.png) [@psi2high](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/psi2high) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 9:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/122 "2011-04-13T09:37:58Z")
LOCK 2 ---
### Author: ![Murrdog9000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/murrdog9000/32/6391_2.png) [@Murrdog9000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Murrdog9000) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/123 "2011-04-13T09:38:02Z")
LOCK 3 ---
### Author: ![Yo\_Rita](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/yo_rita/32/6450_2.png) [@Yo\_Rita](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Yo_Rita) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/124 "2011-04-13T09:39:04Z")
> [@On another topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/41208/4): > > Maybe it is 288… > > How Do I Remember It All … ? PEMDAS ! > PParentheses first > EExponents (ie Powers and Square Roots, etc.) > MDMultiplication and Division (left-to-right) > ASAddition and Subtraction (left-to-right) > > For some reason I dont remember it having to be left to right I thought MULTIPLICATION always came first… but if thats wrong then it is 288… IIRC It doesn’t matter what comes first multipication/divison wise all that matters it from that point on you work the problem L\>R. ---
### Author: ![Murrdog9000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/murrdog9000/32/6391_2.png) [@Murrdog9000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Murrdog9000) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 9:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/125 "2011-04-13T09:40:26Z")
Ive never edited something so fast in my life ---
### Author: ![RocketPunch](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rocketpunch/32/6429_2.png) [@RocketPunch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RocketPunch) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 9:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/126 "2011-04-13T09:44:11Z")
Going with 288 if that is how much I overpay IRS or 2 if that is how much I owe them amirite or amirite? :rofl ---
### Author: ![Mike3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike3/32/6350_2.png) [@Mike3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mike3) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/127 "2011-04-13T09:45:31Z")
:rofl nicely played ---
### Author: ![LKSi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lksi/32/6316_2.png) [@LKSi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LKSi) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/128 "2011-04-13T09:50:03Z")
Lock it up… thank god ---
### Author: ![imported\_hybrdthry91](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/imported_hybrdthry91/32/6315_2.png) [@imported\_hybrdthry91](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_hybrdthry91) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/129 "2011-04-13T09:58:59Z")
> [@The 5 most annoying programs on your PC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-5-most-annoying-programs-on-your-pc/41095/34): > > Distributive property of multiplication over addition. Early Algebra problem. > > **The distributive property of multiplication CLEARLY states that the 2(9+3) is an entire statement and CANNOT be broken up.** 2(9+3) follows the distributive property which can be rewritten as (2_9+2_3). Let me repeat the 2 outside of the parenthesis follows the distributive property of multiplication and must be factored and simplified before performing any other operations on it. You do NOT compute this expression from left to right until you use Algebra to simplify the statement 2(9+3). > > So this can be rewritten as: > 48 / (2_9 + 2_3) > > Which leaves us with > > 48 / 24 = 2 > > Answer = 2. > > Lastly for those using Google or any other online calculator. These do not understand many theorems or properties so you must explicitly explain what you mean. There is a difference between 48 / 2 \* (9+3) and 48 / 2(9+3). The first notation reads 48 / 2 \* 1(9+3) while the second reads 48 / (2_9+2_3). Be very careful with your signs. > > #winning You win by quoting someone else’s answer on yahoo, and i think i saw it on another forum. The part in bold isn’t actually a rule. It is just whether you assume implied multiplication comes first or not. There is no rule that states it comes first, and it seems half of calculators do it first, and the other half dont. I have 2 calcs on my phone that give 2 different answers. ---
### Author: ![cazwrx187](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cazwrx187/32/6388_2.png) [@cazwrx187](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cazwrx187) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 10:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/130 "2011-04-13T10:17:34Z")
Guilderland HS taught me what Vlad found online. ![http://images1.memegenerator.net/ImageMacro/7192302/The-answer-is-2.jpg?imageSize=Medium&generatorName=The-Most-Interesting-Man-in-the-World](http://images1.memegenerator.net/ImageMacro/7192302/The-answer-is-2.jpg?imageSize=Medium&generatorName=The-Most-Interesting-Man-in-the-World) ---
### Author: ![deadbeatrec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/deadbeatrec/32/6401_2.png) [@deadbeatrec](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deadbeatrec) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/131 "2011-04-13T12:18:14Z")
everyone is now banned! ---
### Author: ![Singh1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@Singh1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Singh1) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/132 "2011-04-13T13:41:09Z")
> [@FS: Moto Razr Black AT&T](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-moto-razr-black-at-t/41146/6): > > Going with 288 if that is how much I overpay IRS > > or > > 2 if that is how much I owe them > > amirite or amirite? :rofl hahahaha +rep you’re on the funny shit lately i love it ! ---
### Author: ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/133 "2011-04-13T14:13:48Z")
> [@On another topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/41211/5): > > You win by quoting someone else’s answer on yahoo, and i think i saw it on another forum. > > The part in bold isn’t actually a rule. It is just whether you assume implied multiplication comes first or not. There is no rule that states it comes first, and it seems half of calculators do it first, and the other half dont. I have 2 calcs on my phone that give 2 different answers. Look up my further quotes of the RULE of the distributive property of multiplication. I picked his quite because he put into technical terms what I couldn’t, as I wasn’t here in America for that part of basic math education so I never learned these terms in English. But that it is the way I was taught and that is the way it works. Otherwise you’re breaking the rule of the number that’s assigned to parenthesis being applied to each number inside with the addition 2 crew, unite! ---
### Author: ![Hang\_Your\_Cross](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hang_your_cross/32/6381_2.png) [@Hang\_Your\_Cross](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hang_Your_Cross) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/134 "2011-04-13T14:34:34Z")
288 PE (MD [L-\> R]) (AS [L-\>R]) how bout this. ill bring the question with me to school tomorrow and have a math teacher and her students do it. ---
### Author: ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 2:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/135 "2011-04-13T14:37:19Z")
> [@OFFICIAL: 2008 ELECTION THREAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-2008-election-thread/41192/18): > > 288 > > PE (MD [L-\> R]) (AS [L-\>R]) > > how bout this. ill bring the question with me to school tomorrow and have a math teacher and her students do it. If I learned anything from this A war will strart :rofl ---
### Author: ![ReDevil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redevil/32/6385_2.png) [@ReDevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ReDevil) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/136 "2011-04-13T14:38:58Z")
> [@FS: 1992 GMC Jimmy 4door 4wd w/5.7L V8 swap](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-1992-gmc-jimmy-4door-4wd-w-5-7l-v8-swap/36362/33): > > 48÷2(9+3)=? 48÷2(12)=? 48÷24=? 2=? ---
### Author: ![bennyfizzle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bennyfizzle/32/6291_2.png) [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/137 "2011-04-13T15:48:33Z")
I too will be asking my prof tomorrow night. ---
### Author: ![usmc2801](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/usmc2801/32/6387_2.png) [@usmc2801](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/usmc2801) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/138 "2011-04-13T15:51:03Z")
Someone please find me where it says work left to right on a math problem for all of you who think 288 is the answer… My fiance who has a masters degree and had nearly perfect scores in EVERY math course she ever took said the answer is 2. Reasoning: 48÷2(9+3)= is to be separated into two parts The ÷ symbol separates the problem so you have 48 and you have 2(9+3) which results is 48÷24 =2 She said working you don’t go L to R until both sides of the equation are solved. ---
### Author: ![usmc2801](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/usmc2801/32/6387_2.png) [@usmc2801](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/usmc2801) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/139 "2011-04-13T15:52:23Z")
Oh and I will take my fiance’s word over any professor because she prolly makes a lot more money then ANY of them LOL ---
### Author: ![94Gt5.0](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/94gt5.0/32/6377_2.png) [@94Gt5.0](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/94Gt5.0) #### Post date: [April 13, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/140 "2011-04-13T15:53:54Z")
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