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62(1+2)
623
33

doesn't multiplication come first in the order of operations?

doesn't multiplication come first in the order of operations?

62(1+2)
623
33

9

Multiplication and division have the same priority, so you just go left to right. Same with addition and subtraction.

Its really:

Parentheses
Exponents
Multiplication and Division (left to right)
Addition and Subtraction (left to right)

multiplication and division are equal, so you resolve them left to right

Why can't you do 7th grade math?

What it is is bad syntax

It seems that every single one of these maths problems boils down to atrocious syntax. Basically, the question is poorly phrased to begin with and actually finding the answer has astonishingly little to do with actual maths aptitude.

If you were to write it in fraction notation (which is how anyone above room temperature IQ handles division, since it tends to resolve these ambiguities), you would have 6/(2(1+2)). The inner brackets are evaluated first, resulting in 6/(2*3). Evaluating the final brackets gives 6/6 =1.

9 only seems like a potentially valid answer due to ambiguities over whether the first 2 in the question counts as a coefficient for the bracketed term or if it should be counted as an independent term that 6 is first divided by. Fraction notation resolves this.

Dark_Arbron posted... This. Order of operations wouldnt be necessary with the proper use of brackets.

It seems that every single one of these maths problems boils down to atrocious syntax. Basically, the question is poorly phrased to begin with and actually finding the answer has astonishingly little to do with actual maths aptitude.

If you were to write it in fraction notation (which is how anyone above room temperature IQ handles division, since it tends to resolve these ambiguities), you would have 6/(2(1+2)). The inner brackets are evaluated first, resulting in 6/(2*3). Evaluating the final brackets gives 6/6 =1.

9 only seems like a potentially valid answer due to ambiguities over whether the first 2 in the question counts as a coefficient for the bracketed term or if it should be counted as an independent term that 6 is first divided by. Fraction notation resolves this.

This. Order of operations wouldnt be necessary with the proper use of brackets.

ok

There are at least two ways to write that problem and neither is the one in the OP

When I was a wee lad in school, we learned that 6/2(1+2) was equal to 6/(2(1+2)).

What school?

elementary school

Nah its a perfectly normal way to write it, you just forgot and are wrong

People who pose questions like this and write math equations like this are just looking to stir shit up, ignore them

To write what?

6/2(2+1)
Or (62)(1+2)

Just because you're biased to reading it one way doesn't mean brackets and fractions aren't more useful

One way is correct. You are wrong.

Sure if you put it into a calculator

Youre wrong. Got it

Because my will extends further than my intellect

Cringe. Youre just one of the many that got it wrong.

You can't even explain what is wrong you're just trusting the tweet, if you could you would have by now.

No, Im not trusting the tweet, Im giving the correct answer based on math while you are incorrect.

I never said 9 was wrong, I said you can write the problem out two ways. You never told me why you can't.

The way the problem is written, the correct answer is 9.

The way the problem is written, the correct answer is 9. You are mistaken.

Which he didnt disagree with.

If it wasnt obvious youre just trolling so far, it should be now.

is bad notation. If it was written properly as

6
_____
2(3)

Then the answer would be 1

Ok

Be wrong, harder.