48÷2(9+3) = ???

[major pain]

As I wrote earlier, all numbers can be written as fractions. For this reason, the fraction form of the problem is straightforward, since it's simply the fraction multiplied with the values in the parenthesis; and since the "/" operand only applies to the numbers directly before and after it. This is also the way calculators interpret fractions.

The division version, on the otherhand isn't so simple, as the "÷" symbol is often used to represent a long division operation. So the answer depends on how the "÷" symbol is interpreted. Calculators usually interpret the "÷" operand as long division symbol.

But the "÷" symbol can also be interpreted as a fraction symbol ("/"), in which case it becomes the above example.

However, it's not an issue of the orders of operation as people have been assuming.

Math with fiat.

So 48÷2(9+3) would be 2.

 

[glowy]

smh...this can be rewritten as:
48 / (2*9 + 2*3)

Which leaves us with

48 / 24 = 2

Answer = 2.

But it's not written as that, so it's 288.

 

[fiat_money]

So 48÷2(9+3) would be 2.

If the "÷" is considered a long division symbol.

I've never said that 48÷2(9+3) can't equal 2 in this thread.

 

[fiat_money]

If the "÷" is considered a long division symbol.

I've never said that 48÷2(9+3) can't equal 2 in this thread.

I see what you did there.

This whole thread.

 

[gns]

I hate math! the answer i got was 288 though, I asked my nigga and he got 2, he ended up asking some engineer and shit and we waiting on the answer but i suck at math wouldnt be surprised if i was wrong but how the niggaz working out how they got 2 is some bs to me, so fuck yall and fuck math....

 

[major pain]

I see what you did there.

This whole thread.

Uh huh.......

 

[cuttadc13]

But it's not written as that, so it's 288.

48÷2*(9+3) = 48÷2*(12) = 48÷24 = 2

explain to me why you wouldn't do it this way and I'll leave it alone...

no matter how u look at it...you do parenthesis first, multiply the 2 towards the 12 thats still in parenthesis(there is no argument to that...NONE..so don't try to make one up) and then u do the simple left over division...you get 2. YOU DONT DIVIDE BEFORE YOU MULTIPLY!!..thats basic algebra, u do left to right when the problem is completely broken down, not during. This problem is not supposed to be that difficult. yall making up rules n shit

 

[Pond Scum]

i hope you guys figured out that this is 288 by now.

multiplication and division are ranked the same in order of operations so you go left to right at that point. parenthesis first then multiplication or division from left to right and then addition or subtraction from left to right.

also you can verify this by doing a google search for 48 / 2 (9 + 3) or using a good calculator.

 

[MorganFreemanKing]

Nope it's 2. Gotta completely solve the parentheses until they're no longer present first.

 

[UPTOWN]

48÷2*(9+3) = 48÷2*(12) = 48÷24 = 2

explain to me why you wouldn't do it this way and I'll leave it alone...
no matter how u look at it...you do parenthesis first, multiply the 2 towards the 12 thats still in parenthesis(there is no argument to that...NONE..so don't try to make one up) and then u do the simple left over division...you get 2. YOU DONT DIVIDE BEFORE YOU MULTIPLY!!..thats basic algebra, u do left to right when the problem is completely broken down, not during. This problem is not supposed to be that difficult. yall making up rules n shit

they are saying the parenthesis go away after you do 9 + 3 ... which is true. then you would have to do the division first because its on the left. division and multiplication are technically the same operations they are just opposites like adding is opposite to subtraction. so i see what you're saying and i see what they are saying but the main thing about this is something that no one has picked up on yet ... i think fiat did tho but i guess he didnt see me quote him cause he never responded

 

[major pain]

they are saying the parenthesis go away after you do 9 + 3 ... which is true. then you would have to do the division first because its on the left. division and multiplication are technically the same operations they are just opposites like adding is opposite to subtraction. so i see what you're saying and i see what they are saying but the main thing about this is something that no one has picked up on yet ... i think fiat did tho but i guess he didnt see me quote him cause he never responded

I actually mentioned the symbols awhile back. One specifies long division and one doesnt. The thread title and OP reference the long division symbol.

 

[goodlookinout]

My FB friends is split so far. This makes no sense Lmao

 

[cuttadc13]

i hope you guys figured out that this is 288 by now.

multiplication and division are ranked the same in order of operations so you go left to right at that point. parenthesis first then multiplication or division from left to right and then addition or subtraction from left to right.

also you can verify this by doing a google search for 48 / 2 (9 + 3) or using a good calculator.

smh...lol i swear some of u niggas should sue ur teachers...the answer is 2...stop trying to ignore the fact that the 2 is attached to the problem in the parenthesis...LOOK at how it's written...you always target the problem in parenthesis and the 2 is part of it...why would you abandon 2(12) as a problem in itself????

 

[glowy]

48÷2*(9+3) = 48÷2*(12) = 48÷24 = 2

explain to me why you wouldn't do it this way and I'll leave it alone...
no matter how u look at it...you do parenthesis first, multiply the 2 towards the 12 thats still in parenthesis(there is no argument to that...NONE..so don't try to make one up) and then u do the simple left over division...you get 2. YOU DONT DIVIDE BEFORE YOU MULTIPLY!!..thats basic algebra, u do left to right when the problem is completely broken down, not during. This problem is not supposed to be that difficult. yall making up rules n shit

I can only say this is how I was taught to do it, and copy/paste the response of someone more knowledgeable.

It's not.

PEDMAS is completely retarded and doesn't understand that Division and Multiplication has the exactly same order of operation priority, therefore whatever one comes first is the one that takes priority.

It's 288, this is not up for discussion. We are not reinventing the god damn writing styles of basic math.

ORDER OF PRIORITY:
Parentheses
Exponents
Division == Multiplication
Summation == Subtraction

If you see any of the ones that equal each other next to each other, you do the one left-most first, and then the next. Again, this is not up for discussion. Thread over.

 

[cuttadc13]

they are saying the parenthesis go away after you do 9 + 3 ... which is true. then you would have to do the division first because its on the left. division and multiplication are technically the same operations they are just opposites like adding is opposite to subtraction. so i see what you're saying and i see what they are saying but the main thing about this is something that no one has picked up on yet ... i think fiat did tho but i guess he didnt see me quote him cause he never responded

that isn't true in this algebraic equation tho...because that 2 is right next to that parenthesis..it becomes apart of that problem... people are fucking up by writing it out and seeing it as :48 ÷ 2 x (9+3) and then 48 ÷ 2 x 12... thats causing people to see it as a separation when it's not

 

[cuttadc13]

I can only say this is how I was taught to do it, and copy/paste the response of someone more knowledgeable.

LMAO and what makes that person more knowledgeable??? because the answer they got and the one u got are the same?? gtfoh

 

[glowy]

LMAO and what makes that person more knowledgeable??? because the answer they got and the one u got are the same?? gtfoh

No, I consider him more knowledgeable because his a physics major, which just lets me know that he is pretty good at math.

 

[cuttadc13]

No, I consider him more knowledgeable because his a physics major, which just lets me know that he is pretty good at math.

physics majors aint never wrong?? lol aight..smh. Even tho I see how 288 was created, but why would you separate terms in algebra. 2(9+3) is a problem by itself...YOU HAVE TO FACTOR THIS SHIT FIRST...but aight, whatever yall say...smh

this is the same as:
48
--------
2(9+3)

right??....so why wouldn't you complete the 2(9+3) first? lol where is there a professor when u need one?

 

[cuttadc13]

Consider this: 48/2x=2. Solve for x.

the relationship between 2(9+3) and 2x is the same, right or wrong?

 

[UPTOWN]

My FB friends is split so far. This makes no sense Lmao

im gonna put this on my FB tommorrow and LOL !!!!