Saw this on facebook, bunch of retards on there cant get the right answer. How many of you guys are retards?

3

3

so instead of writing a sum as 1500000/500000, you'd write it as 1500*0.000002

duh you fuckin nigger

hes saying it should be

PEMA
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The answer is 1. the only conceivable way you can get an answer other than one is if you do not prioritize the addition in the paranthese. This would be stupid since the very first step in the order of operations is the paranthese.

Read the first post you nignog

I did. He's wrong.

>order of operations is arbitrary
but it needs to be consistent for the sake of communication.
If a language meant to convey pure logic had multiple valid subjective interpretations then the language has failed. however the order of operations is set in stone, and thinking it "should be something else" is not valid

>it needs to be consistent
that is acknowledged in the same sentence you quoted
and sorry to break it to you, but no language is able to perfectly convey pure logic as long as two unique minds exist

Yes it needs to be consistent. That's what the parentheses are for! Otherwise you get an ambiguous mess like the pictured formula.

The symbols we use for digits and arithmetic operations are arbitrary as well. Does that mean it's impossible to answer a written arithmetic problem incorrectly?

6 * 1/(2(1+2) = 6 * 1/(2(3)) = 6 * 1/6 = 1

bait /10

[math]5 \pm 4[math]

>6 ÷ (2(1+2)

"moving goalposts", the post

This

and don't even try to explain it to normies on Facebook.

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It's 9. Fucking engineering students.

[math]1500000 \times 500000^{-1}[/math]
Also,
>sum

When in doubt, parenthesize everything.
Or you could use the parentheses-free Polish/Reverse-Polish notations.
Order-of-operations isn't really math. It really is only a precedence hierarchy that people abide by so they can be lazy and omit the parentheses. I really think infix notation breaks people just like Roman numerals probably broke people's ability to do simple math thousands of years ago.

It's a horrible question, due to the ambiguous notation. Using [math]\div[/math] is just as retarded as writing [math]\times^{-1}[/math]

Independent of explicit instruction as to what order of operations conventions are being used, there is more than one answer. This is why conventions are discussed at the beginning of literally every math text. There's no such thing as a universal order of operations and if you think there is, you don't know 1/1000 of what you think you know about math.

just depends on where we are multiplying the 3

the problem is too vague obviously if you imagine it as 6/2(3) then it's 1, or 6(3)/2 then it's 9 and neither is wrong because only a retard would write it like that

>6/2(3) then it's 1

That's wrong though. You can even multiply by the inverse to prove it.
6 * .5 * (3) = 9. It's always 9. Some people are just brainlets about it. Heck the order doesn't even matter if you use the commutative property properly.

actually the division symbol is less ambiguous than using /

It's clearly division where / may be representing a fractional quantity.

>it can be 1 if you screw it up
>Brackets
>Indicies
>Divide/multiply
>Add/Subtract

>brackets first
6/2(1+2) = 6/(2+4) = 6/6 = 1
6/2(1+2) =/= (6/2)(1+2)
10/10, would get baited again

Why aren't mods deleting these threads?

Do we even have mods?

Did you think the equation was a fraction (despite the unambiguous use of the division symbol) or are you just using the distributive property incorrectly?

The correct answer is 9.

it boils down to 1/6*2*3
so 1

why the fuck you people keep asking the same trivial as fuck questions?
stop
get some help user