48├À2(9+3) = ????

[Fogel]

What's your answer?

[Galnor]

Whatever Google says.

[Fogel]

Whatever Google says.

u cheeto

[Ciarra]

2!!!!

[Racyn]

LOL u fuks didnt u take alebra u has to rerite it like dis

48├À2(9+3) = ????
48├À2(9+3) = 4(?)

DEN solvs for ?

[Growler]

Lol, did you grab that from bodybuilding.com or from 2+2?

Anyhoo, it's 288. EZ game.

[Fogel]

From neogaf.com actually, but this thread popped up on just about every forum on the internet last week, usually with horrifying results. It's kind of sad how many people don't understand order of operations.

[Kyrana]

I'm not that great at math but i was always taught 'BODMAS' brackets over division, multiplication, addition, subtraction....

48/2(9+3)

So brackets first:
9+3 = 12
Division next:
48/2 = 24
multiplication last:
24*12 = 288.

That is how i learned how to do it!!!! But people have done it like this:

48/2(9 + 3) =
48/2(12) =
48/24 =
2.

Also from a forums i've read someone did this:

its 2.

think of it like this 48/(2/(9+3)). Anything attached to parentheses already have an invisible parentheses around it. This is a true fact. You'll see it in any school textbook. Therefore it would be 48/24 = 2.

Another method to look at it is to make 2 = x and the whole expression equal to 288. x should equal to 2 when we solve for it if 288 is the right answer.

(48)/(x) * (12) = 288 ; x = 1/76
Therefore it cannot be right. 2 is the answer and it is not debatable.
Source(s):
over 16 years of math experience and im only in high school. I take CALC BC and I have a very good mind when it comes to math.

WHICH IS JUST FUCKING CONFUSING! somehow i highly doubt he does calc bc..

[Ciarra]

i just randomly said 2 because i didnt want to solve it :p

[Chase]

Its 288. Is this a joke? I seriously don't understand..

[Galnor]

I think people probably get it wrong because you rarely see the division operator written out like that.

Usually you see it like this:

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  2-2
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3(8-4)

In fact I can't even remember the last time I saw the division operator used like that. 4th grade maybe?

Just remember PEMDAS and all shall be well.

[Kyrana]

whats PEMDAS?

[Ciarra]

Parenthesis
Exponents
Multiply
Divide
Add
Subtract

Sheesh i try to be stupid and you make me explain everything!

[Kyrana]

because i know you are really very smart!

[Reamer]

He got it from WoTmud forums.

[Gargul]

easy lol, 288

do 48/2, then multiply the lot by 12

[Roran]

Sometimes you guys make me wonder....

[Alder]

That calculus kid is stupid. 48/x * 12 = 288; x does not equal 1/76. Multiply by x so 576/288 = x = 2. Hopefully his calculus is better than his algebra.

[Barf]

48├À2(9+3) = ????

P= (9+3)=11
E
M (12)2=24
D 48/24=2
A
S

Answer= 2

I hate math lol

[Alder]

Multiplication and Division take the same precedent, so you evaluate each as you come to it reading left to right. Also, (9+3)=12 not 11

[Koradin]

The way I was taught is a bit different with the same result...

48
------
2(9+3)


48
------
18+6



48
------
24




2

[Jack]

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JACK
-----   = GOD
BAUER