48÷2(9+3) = ???

[frankenbeemer]

Mechanical Engineer. I'm smarter than my calculator.

2(9+3) is treated as ONE, such that the parenthesis is addressed first followed by the distributive property.

Please, don't rewrite the laws of math.

You should be ashamed.

[mrsleeve]

^^^^^^^^^^^^

Please provide me a list of all the projects and products you have been involved with even as an intern. So I can keep that list handy and reference it as needed to ascertain danger to life or limb of my self or my family and frineds from something you have worked on.

thank you
signed

Concerned Citizen ;)

(I may not have a fancy degree but I too am smarter than my calculator.)

[Turd]

I still find it hard to believe that 123 people (most college educated or working on it) cant solve a very simple 6th grade algebra problem correctly. Please let me know what it is you guys do for a living and what it is that you have been working on. SO I CAN AVOID IT.

Mechanical Engineer. I'm smarter than my calculator.

2(9+3) is treated as ONE, such that the parenthesis is addressed first followed by the distributive property.

Please, don't rewrite the laws of math.

[Be30mer]

fuck this thread.

[Fusion]

Has anyone gotten the elephant out of the way?

[einstein57]

my calculator says 288 but i say its 2. I don't think my calculator ever got an A in differential equations.

[QUKBMER]

Ive consulted with a high school drop out and he confirms the answer is 288. This must mean the answer is really 2.

THIS ^

[mrsleeve]

I still find it hard to believe that 123 people (most college educated or working on it) cant solve a very simple 6th grade algebra problem correctly. Please let me know what it is you guys do for a living and what it is that you have been working on. SO I CAN AVOID IT.

[thornado327i]

According to both my calc 3 instructor and classmates, and my electrical engineering teacher the answer is 288. I am sticking with that goodbye thread.

16 years ago in 8th grade in States my English teacher asked me whether I knew Arnold. I asked "What Arnold?". Schwarzennegger, she replied. I askes why would I know him? He's from Austria. She said - "yes, but it's close isn't it".

I'll leave it here as for US teacher's basic knowledge level.


BTW - it's 2. Face it. Stop wasting life here and learn something for Christ's sake!

[Car Addict]

According to both my calc 3 instructor and classmates, and my electrical engineering teacher the answer is 288. I am sticking with that goodbye thread.

[Pennyw1se]

How do you get 288?

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

Damn people. Go back to elementary school.

[frankenbeemer]

Maybe this Richard Feynman quote is appropriate here.

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell "friend," I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.

[mightywhitey]

Ive consulted with a high school drop out and he confirms the answer is 288. This must mean the answer is really 2.

[Todd Black 88]

I really can't believe there is a 16 page thread ALL ABOUT A SIMPLE MATH TASK!!!

Next poll: How often do you breathe?
A. Twice a day
B. I don't

Member for 5yrs and still a noob.
Change your posts per page setting, i am on page 7.;)

[brownwhite]

288 lol...........
Please putt more Q/A,,,,,,,

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