8 ÷ 2(2+2) = ?
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Re: 8 ÷ 2(2+2) = ?
I voted 16 so it's definitely not that.
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Following normal order of operations, it is clearly 1. I'm not completely sure how people get 16 unless they are reading the divide sign as a + sign.
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Re: 8 ÷ 2(2+2) = ?
1 is my answer as well. The article gets at how one might make a case for 16. Apparently, Google and WolframAlpha calculators will give you 16.Popeye_Card wrote:Following normal order of operations, it is clearly 1. I'm not completely sure how people get 16 unless they are reading the divide sign as a + sign.
Seems to come down to how you handle "implicit multiplication."
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It's 1, isn't it?
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Re: 8 ÷ 2(2+2) = ?
OK, I see how they are getting there now. I had always been taught to act on implied multiplication first.G. Keenan wrote:1 is my answer as well. The article gets at how one might make a case for 16. Apparently, Google and WolframAlpha calculators will give you 16.Popeye_Card wrote:Following normal order of operations, it is clearly 1. I'm not completely sure how people get 16 unless they are reading the divide sign as a + sign.
Seems to come down to how you handle "implicit multiplication."
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Re: 8 ÷ 2(2+2) = ?
And now I get how you get 1. Interesting.Popeye_Card wrote:OK, I see how they are getting there now. I had always been taught to act on implied multiplication first.G. Keenan wrote:1 is my answer as well. The article gets at how one might make a case for 16. Apparently, Google and WolframAlpha calculators will give you 16.Popeye_Card wrote:Following normal order of operations, it is clearly 1. I'm not completely sure how people get 16 unless they are reading the divide sign as a + sign.
Seems to come down to how you handle "implicit multiplication."
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Re: 8 ÷ 2(2+2) = ?
Whether implicit or explicit, it's still multiplication, so shouldn't it always come before division?Popeye_Card wrote:OK, I see how they are getting there now. I had always been taught to act on implied multiplication first.G. Keenan wrote:1 is my answer as well. The article gets at how one might make a case for 16. Apparently, Google and WolframAlpha calculators will give you 16.Popeye_Card wrote:Following normal order of operations, it is clearly 1. I'm not completely sure how people get 16 unless they are reading the divide sign as a + sign.
Seems to come down to how you handle "implicit multiplication."
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