48÷2(9+3)=?

[bennyfizzle]

Is it 288

[AMD_IS_THE_BEST]

288!

[cazwrx187]

My chem professer and TA said it’s 2

[h0twh3els]

The answers mother fuckin 2… GOT THAT TWO.

[Hang_Your_Cross]

I asked two math teachers and they both said 288.

The reason is because the way the equation is setup.

the equation is set up as

48÷2(9+3)=

not

48

---

2(9+3)

so with order of operations it’s PE -> MD (left to right) -> AS (left to right)

[h0twh3els]

@Hang Your Cross

I asked two math teachers and they both said 288.

The reason is because the way the equation is setup.

I asked 4 math teachers and they said it was 2.

[20wrx09]

PIPE DREAM

[h0twh3els]

Where is ob-longed skull petard anyways?

[Vovchandr]

@hybrdthry911

distribute the 48 halves into the (9+3) and see what you get.

But you can’t

Quote:
Symbols of grouping can be used to override the usual order of operations. Grouped symbols can be treated as a single expression. Symbols of grouping can be removed using the associative and distributive laws.

[bennyfizzle]

@Vovchandr

But you can’t

give it up man, the way it’s phrased the answer is 288. it’s just a shitty question.

[Vovchandr]

@bennyfizzle

Wolfram’s motherfucking Alpha.

It’s a mother fucking calculator and math was done well before they were around. When done right on paper, spoken out or applied to a real life problem, it’s 2

Your fucking wolfram doesn’t like it when I use the distributive property

Where is your 288 now?

48/6(3 + 1) - Wolfram|Alpha

@bennyfizzle

give it up man, the way it’s phrased the answer is 288. it’s just a shitty question.

The hell you mean it doesn’t? It says it right there it DOES. Find me a link otherwise that says that assigned numbered to parenthesis are over ruled by pemdas :facepalm

[usmc2801]

in Russia equation calculates you…

[Vovchandr]

@hybrdthry911

my coworker tried to put it into a word problem to twist it his way too, get that shit out of here.

Yeah fuck that logic shit :rofl

[deadbeatrec]

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PJB

eat up jellies.

[jdaniels]

lolol wtf

[Vovchandr]

@Vovchandr

So let’s see a definition that says Symbols of grouping overrides pemdas bs, plain English that explains that 2*x is not the same as 2x, a mathematical rule that demonstrates that the factor of 2 should be applied to each number inside…

Hey guys answer this

What’s 48/(24)?
What’s 48/(12)2?
What’s 48/(1+0)24?

And before you say I can’t do that ^ there are plenty of rules that say I can. The number that comes out of the parenthesis that gets assigned to it can go on either side outside because it has to be the next step in calculations.

@hybrdthry911

distribute the 48 halves into the (9+3) and see what you get.

Where are you getting halves from if you’re going left to right?

…

[Vovchandr]

.

[Hang_Your_Cross]

again, you are doing it wrong. read what i wrote.

[Vovchandr]

@Hang Your Cross

again, you are doing it wrong. read what i wrote.

I didn’t do it wrong

Read the RULE that states that distributive property of multiplication takes preference and gets “assigned” to the parentheses.

Answer my examples above

[Vovchandr]

Some more if you still have some fight in you

Note that different software will process this differently; even different models of Texas Instruments graphing calculators will process this differently. In cases of ambiguity, be very careful of your parentheses, and make your meaning clear. The general consensus among math people is that “multiplication by juxtaposition” (that is, multiplying by just putting things next to each other, rather than using the “×” sign) indicates that the juxtaposed values must be multiplied together before processing other operations. But not all software is programmed this way

How does the order of operations work (examples)?

2*12 = two times twelve

2(12) = two sets of twelve.

They are NOT the same thing

By NOT writing the “*” between 2 and parenthesis it’s implying the distributive property