What Is The Answer To This Simple Math Problem?

[jmac98]

Bedmas, that's all I remember.

 

[44nutman]

I got ..
......

 

[Nonsense]

Guys. It's 4. There are no other acceptable alternative answers.

 

[Strychnine]

Guys. It's 4. There are no other acceptable alternative answers.

This^

 

[xbone19]

one time i wrote "undefined" and teacher gave me sick credit

i just nodded

 

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

itt: trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls

 

[Steely]

one

 

[MASShole]

The answer is obviously e.

 

[Pseudo Sane]

What is that? LOL. We were taught BEDMAS.

'P'=Parentheses.

'B'=Brackets.

 

[fightdonttweet]

Terribly written question. 4.

 

[Doughbelly]

Guys. It's 4. There are no other acceptable alternative answers.

Go back to lawyering!

 

[Iroh]

Roughly about.. free fiddy.

 

[Irving]

Came across this equation when helping my little cousin a few months ago, figured Sherdog can take a crack at it.

8

 

[AronaBeatsJones]

This depends on if you're doing BEDMAS or PEMDAS, or more simply, if you're multiplying or dividing first.

I was trained with BEDMAS as the convention, so I got 4. Others who are doing PEMDAS are getting 1.

As stated in this post, the question itself is ambiguous, and should be clarified with another parenthesis:

equivalent question:

48/2(9+3) = ?

https://math.berkeley.edu/~gbergman/misc/numbers/ord_ops.html

 

[faustian]

Came across this equation when helping my little cousin a few months ago, figured Sherdog can take a crack at it.

8

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

Brackets

Exponents

Division / Multiplication (in the order they appear)

Addition / Subtraction (in the order they appear)

 

[chickenluver]

Answer is 1. Y'all need to Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally this stuff.

Parentheses, Multiply, then Divide.

2 x 4 = 8.
8 divided by 8 is one.

Multiplication doesn't have priority over division, they are at the same level of priority, you do the leftmost one first

1+1=2
8/4=2
2*2=4

Go back to school

 

[chickenluver]

I got 1 because I don't stop working with the parentheses until they are gone so 4(2) is still first priority. Probably not a hard and fast rule, just my way of thinking about it.

Nah dude, you just work within the parenthesis until it can't be reduced more

Once you have 2 in parenthesis it just becomes *2

 

[Henry Swanson]

'P'=Parentheses.

'B'=Brackets.

I meant more the M and the D being in different order.

 

[chickenluver]

Order of operations, brah

Rule 1: First perform any calculations inside parentheses.
Rule 2: Next perform all multiplications and divisions, working from left to right.
Rule 3: Lastly, perform all additions and subtractions, working from left to right.

Glad someone around here finished middle school