What answer do you get?

SeleniumFalcon
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Evidently there are two equally valid answers for this equation, each depends upon when you first learned math. Have fun!

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  • stangman67
    stangman67 Posts: 2,289
    It’s 1. I don’t see how it could be anything else personally?
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    It's 1.

    There's no other answer.

    Order of operations.

    Parenthesis, multiplication and then division.

    One plus two is three.

    Three times two is six.

    Any number divided by itself is one.

    Six divide by six is one.
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  • ZLTFUL
    ZLTFUL Posts: 5,648
    Not to pile on the bandwagon, but even my math illiterate a$$ followed the order of operations to the inevitable conclusion of 1.
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  • stangman67
    stangman67 Posts: 2,289
    Had to break out ole PEMDAS!
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,145
    Please excuse my dear aunt Sally. 1
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,476
    Microsoft Excel won't accept the formula without a multiplication symbol between the first 2 and the parentheses.

    The answer is 9.
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  • stangman67
    stangman67 Posts: 2,289
    So apparently the correct answer is actually 9. Multiplication and division are equal in the order of operations (not how we were all taught). So you’d divide first as you go left to right when doing operations that are equivalent
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  • stangman67
    stangman67 Posts: 2,289
    I hate math
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,762
    edited February 2023
    me, too.
    actually, I don't hate it, but I am terrible at math... and really pathetically terrible at arithmetic, especially when fractions are involved.
    I picked a kind of funny line of work. :#

    Our son is a mathematician and our daughter's an economist. They are amused when they watch me try to figure out, say, how much larger (in percentage) is 4 than 3.

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    (I actually knew the order of operations thing -- but that doesn't mean I'd do it right)
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  • Jstas
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    Look, you can use the fuzzy math all you want but in every logical circuit design, the multiplication operator associated with the parenthesis gets operated on first because of it's association with the parenthesis. The division comes second because the parenthesis gives the multiplication a priority bump. It's known as "multiplication denoted by juxtaposition" and it sets a higher priority than a standalone multiplcation operator.

    Every computer out there including the one you are reading this on operates under that assumption for the order of operations.

    The answer to the equation is 1. Not 9.
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  • stangman67
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    Same thought process I had. I guess that’s why this question exists, just to piss people off lol. All the articles out there are saying the only right answer is 9. I never even considered 9 over 1
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,476
    This will get 1:

    =6/(2*(2+1))

    :D
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,004
    Question - Is the answer dependent on Common Core math or what?

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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,476
    edited February 2023
    No, the method has been used for more than a hundred years, but I do suspect common core math was just designed so parents could no longer help their kids with their math homework. :)

    The Google calculator also says the answer is 9.
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  • pearsall001
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    My method is very easy & straightforward. Whenever I disassemble anything & after I reassemble there's always one screw left over! I get 1 too & I'm sticking too it!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,762
    edited February 2023
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    Danged fractions...
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  • xschop
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    I guess it's just that fuzzy math. Nowadays the answer can identify with whatever number he, she, it, them, they prefer.
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  • stangman67
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    The answer actually identified as a letter, and it’s F (for F***)
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  • maxward
    maxward Posts: 1,573
    If you didn’t want to intentionally confuse people, you could have written the equation differently, which I will not attempt here.
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,043
    What a bunch of math nahtzees!!!
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  • Navy_Goat
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    I too want the answer to be 1, but 9 is what I get when I think it through.
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  • tonyp063
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    Ken, you are an evil, evil man.



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  • daddyjt
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    All kidding aside, this leads to some pretty ugly outcomes as the new generation of engineers integrate into systems that were designed before their parents birth….
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  • SeleniumFalcon
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    "Why I aught to smack you with my slide rule, you twerp!" he he
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  • jbreezy5
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    The common denominator of common core math = stupidity.
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  • msg
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    9 - those who go to a concert and are okay with wild departures from the studio recordings.

    1 - those who go to a concert, and...
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  • rebelsoul
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    It's 9
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 9,990
    Math is a global, if not universal, language. There are basic rules and standards for its use and interpretation that make it work the same for everyone.

    Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go divide some Schiit by zero and see what happens.
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