48÷2(9+3) =

[Syringer]

Saw this in another forum, what say you?

 

[gonzaga1751]

TeamLiquid lol

 

[rcpratt]

Durr.

 

[TuxDave]

I've always treated multiply and divide on equal ranks so you do them as you read it.

48/2 * 12

 

[Drako]

Durr.

derp derp ...

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=48%C3%B72%289%2B3%29

 

[RedRooster]

Brackets>touching brackets>regular?

 

[Udgnim]

people that are choosing 2 are fucking trolling

 

[NuclearNed]

my dear Aunt Sally says 2

 

[Regs]

p0wned

 

[NuroMancer]

Bedmas

B-brackets
E-exponents
DM-multiply or divide (left to right)
AS-add subtract (left to right)

 

[HAL9000]

I've always treated multiply and divide on equal ranks so you do them as you read it.

48/2 * 12

This.

 

[rcpratt]

my dear Aunt Sally says 2

Multiplication does not go before division.

Left to right precedence in this case.

 

[AstroManLuca]

288. Only things INSIDE parentheses come first. One number touching a parenthetical statement is just the same as putting a multiplication sign there.

The answer would only be 2 if it was written as:

48÷(2[9+3])

Multiplication and division are evaluated left to right, one does not come before the other.

 

[BladeVenom]

Saw this in another forum, what say you?

Are you hanging out in children's forums? This is grade school math.

 

[HAL9000]

google says 288

 

[SunnyD]

288. Only things INSIDE parentheses come first. One number touching a parenthetical statement is just the same as putting a multiplication sign there.

The answer would only be 2 if it was written as:

48÷(2[9+3])

Multiplication and division are evaluated left to right, one does not come before the other.

WRONG. It is written just like you suggest it should be.

You people need to fucking learn your order of operations.



It's 48 / ((2*9) + (2*3)), completely as written. Distributive operations have precedence. Though given the actual textual representation used, the operation is ambiguous at best.
Yes I'm starting to start an efight.

 

[purbeast0]

288 ... a fucking 5th grader should know this.

 

[schneiderguy]

Are you hanging out in children's forums? This is grade school math.

I don't know where he saw it, but I saw it on the misc bb.com forum. They're a bunch of steroid abusing retards so it was challenging for them.

 

[rcpratt]

I don't know where he saw it, but I saw it on the misc bb.com forum. They're a bunch of steroid abusing retards so it was challenging for them.

Apparently it's challenging for AT as well. I am disappoint.

 

[RedRooster]

You idiots guessing 288 are wrong. I got 87 in math. It's 2.

 

[highland145]

288 ... a fucking 5th grader should know this.

We have no 5th grade members.

 

[Drako]

Hmm, I did not think so many people would answer "2".

 

[Uppsala9496]

Wolfram Alpha (the free android app from amazon yesterday) says it is 288.

 

[Matthiasa]

officially it would be 288 however when written it would not look like that's since that is just asking for trouble.
The two would either be bracketed with what was intended to go with or on the bottom.