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Pretty simple one. What's the answer?
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Really?
48/54 = ~0.89
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Well it might be if there was an actual sign between the brackets and the 2
assuming it is implying multiplication then 48 / 2 * (9 + 3) = 48 / 2 * 12 = 24 * 12 = 288. |
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its 288
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LOL oh ****...bodmas.....division first....
I read it as 44 / (2*(9+3)) = 44 / 2*27 = 44 / 54 = 0.8
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Order of operations
Brackets first, then do the multiply between 2 and 9, no sign is always multiply. Then 48/24=2 edit: can I just ask, howcome?
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ok so...on the calculator
48/2(9+3) = 288 48/(2(9+3)) = 2 This is a sad day for me...to think I passed eng maths at uni
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Isn't it 2?
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Gotta go with;
48÷2(12) 48÷24 =2 |
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I think it must be 288 but an army of self proclaimed "clever people" say it has to be 2. At the moment a poll is sitting at 53% for 288. |
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2 . definitely 2.
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Jesus...two mistake in my haste
48 not 44 and + not x so... 48 / 2(9+3) = 48 / 2(12) = 48 / 24 = 2 Thats my final answer. Lock it in eddie...
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48 / 2(9+3)
= 48/2(12) = 48/24 = 2 EDIT: But if you work left-to-right after the bracket, you get 288! 48 / 2(9+3) = 48 / 2 (12) = 24 (12) = 288
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288, but I'll post again later tonight after bodmas beers.....
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48÷2(9+3)
48÷2x(9+3) 48÷2x12 24x12 288 If you come to any other answer, go back to school. All of you answering 2, the question is 48÷2x(9+3) If it was 48÷(2x(9+3)) you would be right Last edited by StealthAu; 15-04-2011 at 01:48 PM. |
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hmmm this is still not looking good...I want to see the other thread!
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Or cant type? 12x12 = 144...you mean 24x12 True M and D can be used at the same time....but I didnt do left to right. edit: lots of edits from me, but I would have nailed that elephant question I conceded, I was wrong, and it is 288. Dammit
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It is definitely 288.
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I think, depending on your age, that the answer will vary.
I seem to remember my dad telling me it was BOMDAS, which would make the multiplication before the division, therefore the answer would be 2. But I learnt it from school as BODMAS, which would put the division before the multiplication, and therefore the answer would be 288. As a final ruling, my calculator (TI 89 Titanium) thinks BODMAS wins.
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288.
Don't need to explain this one, flap did a good enough job.
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I'm going to go with 288.
48/2*(9+3) 48/2*(12) 12*24 =288. K win! Hrmm, unless someone is going on BOMDAS, not BODMAS - which is possible, because school has changed a lot...oh stuff it - I left school 12 years ago...
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