48÷2(9+3) = ????

[LeonelCerezo]

Its 288

[Tip Top]

i'd read it 48/(2(9+3))=2

[Ivan7x]

9+3 =12

48/2= 24

24*12= 288

dont see the problem

after parentheses you do mult or div whichever comes first

[medicfourlife]

its either 288 or 2, lets agree on that

Agreed.

[SproX]

2(9+3) = 24

48/24

= 2


ur parents mad op?

Pemdas says 2

its 2.

Ive never heard of pemdas, but i used BEDMAS, brackets first so you have

48/2(12)

= 48/24

=2

Wrong.

350.

[IIMaCkiNII]

The answer is 2. Anyone who says otherwise is trolling, or stupid.

[tcatcrawler]

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i...%289%2B3%29%29

thank you sir! thats what i also got on my ti-83+ lol

[STPinPA]

a couple of parents are having a debate over this...

i get 2?

edit - wolframalpha says 288? i thought PEMDAS says parentheses first?

Hi, it's 2.

[CarlMcGuirk]

Two, unless they changed math.

[SebastianG]

Lulz @ 288

[SuupaBuu]

I got 288. We're use to having separate terms that add or subtract from one another so it seems off at first.

[CarlMcGuirk]

I got 288. We're use to having separate terms that add or subtract from one another so it seems off at first.

what?

[frank112]

Its 2 when you use Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

[HideYoWife]

You can also do it the hard way.

48/2(9+3)

2(9+3)=18+6

18+6=24

48/24=2

Answer is 2

[Saint-Odin]

a couple of parents are having a debate over this...

i get 2?

edit - wolframalpha says 288? i thought PEMDAS says parentheses first?

Red fail troll makes a thread about BEDMAS

One of the worst posters in the misc no doubt

Feeding the troll:

288

[Hadouken91]

How do you know if the (9+3) is in the denominator or not?

I would almost assume its not and say the answer is 288 because if it was I think it would be written

48/(2(9+3))

[gotspeed22]

wow.

multiply or divide as they appear LEFT FROM RIGHT

48÷2(9+3) =

(9+3)=12
48/2=24
12x24= you are all stupid as ****

the question is fine go ask any 5th grader, you all just suck

[IsraeliPride]

order of operations states it is 48/24 so you actually fail

OOP states you do brackets first, then division or multiplication first.

So we do brackets and we get (9+3) = (12)

THEN we start from the beginning and we do 48/2 = 24 then we multiply by 12 so you fail.

This question is stupid though cus you should be putting brackets when you type something like this.

[frank112]

wow i might go ned everyone.

multiply or divide as they appear LEFT FROM RIGHT

48÷2(9+3) =

(9+3)=12
48/2=24
12x24=

You're getting confused by the fact that the 48 divided by 2 part is on the left. You have to think of it in terms of numerator and denominator.

Read it this way

48
2(9+3)

[hideyowives]

I got 350

[Soup66]

What the **** is wrong with half of you.

The answer is 2.

The 48 / 2 is not in brackets.

[SuupaBuu]

what?

48 + 2(9+3) is what we'd usually see. That makes us simplify 2(9+3) more often than viewing the problem strictly within the order of operations. That's how I thought of it at least.

He's not asking about 48/(2(9+3)) = ?

[Muneyy]

its 2.

Ive never heard of pemdas, but i used BEDMAS, brackets first so you have

48/2(12)

= 48/24

=2

If you have a number, then a number in a bracket, don't you multiply the 2, not divide it?
Fark i hate math and am confuse.

[TXDStone]

wow.

multiply or divide as they appear LEFT FROM RIGHT

48÷2(9+3) =

(9+3)=12
48/2=24
12x24= you are all stupid as ****

It's this. The way you originally wrote it the answer is 288. You don't Multiply first because that comes first in the PEMDAS acronym. Multiplication and Division are equivalent so you do it from left to right.

[soloS]

Its 288 fkctards

[LuxLibertas]

48÷2(12)


Is 2(12) still considered part of P in PEMDAS or is it M?

I havent had to use the maths in a while so I forgot.

[gouscfootball]

edit: 288

48/2*(9+3)
=48/2*12
=288

read the problem wrong at first

..or do you leave the parantheses attached to the 12??

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

I got back to my original answer of 2

[tcatcrawler]

wow.

multiply or divide as they appear LEFT FROM RIGHT

48÷2(9+3) =

(9+3)=12
48/2=24
12x24= you are all stupid as ****

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this problem is from an elementary school problem set lol. they haven't even learned to distribute yet. so the problem could very well be 288.

[Ek2]

they teach pemdas in the states? hahahaha

BEDMAS

brackets
exponents
division
multiplication
addition
subtraction



=48/2(9+3)
=48/2(12)
=24(12)
=288

[canadian-eh]

All the people that said 2 just got trolled.

You can't arbitrarily multiply the 2 by the bracketed term first. Think of it like this:

24 / 2 * (9+3)

edit: spelling is hard