Half of you will get this wrong: 48÷2(9+3) = 288 or 2?

[Built]

Gotta love logic and consistent rules.

 

[DOMS]

Obviously NO ONE is about to admit they are wrong, someone with a doctor in math said it's 288 and apparently now a math teacher at UNLV says it's 2. Even calculators are giving both answers. I'm sure one is technically right, but no one is ever going to change the side they picked from the start.

I beg to differ.

 

[DOMS]

Gotta love logic and consistent rules.

No doubt.

I find it funny that KelJu said:

But you have to appreciate the beauty of math. Had this been an abstract concept, we would have a 20 page thread on our hands with flames and death threats between the divided groups of twoions and twohundredandeightyeightions.

Which is pretty much what happened.

 

[ihateschoolmt]

I beg to differ.

About people switching sides? DAMN fine, most people won't change their mind. Happy?

 

[DOMS]

About people switching sides? DAMN fine, most people won't change their mind. Happy?

Define "most"?

 

[ihateschoolmt]

most (m

st)adj. Superlative of many, much.
1. a. Greatest in number: won the most votes.
b. Greatest in amount, extent, or degree: has the most compassion.
2. In the greatest number of instances: Most fish have fins.

 

[Built]

Define "most"?

Those lesser than yourself.

 

[DOMS]

most (m

st)adj. Superlative of many, much.
1. a. Greatest in number: won the most votes.
b. Greatest in amount, extent, or degree: has the most compassion.
2. In the greatest number of instances: Most fish have fins.

Dude, I was joking.

 

[DOMS]

Those lesser than yourself.

Roger that.

 

[ihateschoolmt]

Dude, I was joking.

I know I was just fuckin with ya.

 

[hoyle21]

Somebody needs to tally the votes just to make sure half of the people here got it wrong.

 

[Built]

I considered doing that, but once again, laziness prevailed.

 

[ihateschoolmt]

48÷2(9+3) = ???? - Page 41 - Grasscity.com Forums

Grasscity has a poll with over 200 votes, it was exactly 50/50. It's amazing that someone thought of a math concept that is so hard to prove based on what everyone has been taught.

 

[Jodi]

Not reading this whole thread however, wanted to throw my answer in.

288

48÷2(9+3)

PEMDAS, BODMAS whichever you use - they both mean the same thing.

Parenthesis first so 9+3 = 12
Then Multiplication or Division next but seeing there are both in this equation then order of operations are left to right: 48÷2=24
Then the multiplication of: 24x12= 288

 

[myCATpowerlifts]

 

[bentoverrows]

I think 2.
Order of Operations - BODMAS

 

[otis332]

48÷2(9+3) Googled= 288!

 

[myCATpowerlifts]

The answer is 2.

Anyone saying contrary needs to visit elementary school.

 

[poleguy54]

easy answer is 2

 

[DOMS]

easy answer is 2

Fail

 

[ihateschoolmt]

You guys still arguing about this? You really think at this point 1 more person posting "it's 2 (or 288) omg u guyz r so dumb" is going to end it?

 

[Iroc86er]

Haha I'll do it hate.

Not sure if anyone came to a conclusion, but the answer should be 2.

48/2(9+3)

If you treat 9 and 3 as variables. 9=a, 3=b
48/2(a+b) = 48/(2a+2b)
48/(18+6)
48/24= 2

Wouldn't do it any other way.

 

[danzik17]

Thanks. Thanks for bringing this retarded thread back after it finally died.

 

[Ichigo]

It = 2

 

[Iroc86er]

No problem fellas lol.

 

[Kathybird]

So, what's the answer? This is why I lost my damn scholarship. I can correct every misspelled and grammatically incorrect post, but I can't balance my checkbook.

 

[Kubush]

288!

Haha I'll do it hate.

Not sure if anyone came to a conclusion, but the answer should be 2.

48/2(9+3)

If you treat 9 and 3 as variables. 9=a, 3=b
48/2(a+b) = 48/(2a+2b)
48/(18+6)
48/24= 2

Wouldn't do it any other way.

You can't distribute 2 by itself. The number as it is written can be seen as a fraction (48/2) which is then distributed. So it would be: (48/2)*a +(48/2)*b

If you plug in the numbers you get 288.

 

[Kubush]

I was confused a bit at first too because I assumed that the "2(9+3)" was the denominator of the equation. So in my mind it looked like this:
48
2(9+3)

which equals 2.

But on re-examination I realized that as it is written it should look like this instead:
48 * (9+3) = 288
2


This is ultimately where the confusion lies.

Another example would be: 1/2(10) which is the same as 0.5(10)
The analogous mistake would be to do this: 1/(2(10)) = 1/20

 

[whirledps]

The order of operations and left to right makes me say 288

 

[2003 V-ROD]

Somebody needs to tally the votes just to make sure half of the people here got it wrong.

I would but I'M TOO lazy and I hate Algebra.