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breaking news: black guy gets math right while asian guy gets it wrong!

divide by zero and end the world now!

Because you have to foil ... so anything with N(X+Y) goes first. So you get NX+NY.

Speaking of golf.... hit me up.

in order for something to be True
it must hold for all numbers
substitute the 2 with a variable...say z

and see if you still leave it alone :)

Sorry, not going to bite anymore on a badly written problem. There's no steadfast rule that elevates the priority of implied multiplication over explicit. It's a good troll though reading through some of the comments and what not on the knowyourmeme page.

lol what?

the answer is 288

if you think it's any different then you're reading the question wrong

the way it's written the answer = 288

Oh come on. Who doesn't like Robot Chicken?

its 2

trust me
you can prove it to yourself

Don't make me divide by 0!

It's 288. The bugs in the calculators that started the whole meme have been corrected. I'll let you troll in peace tho ;-)

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=488334

even the physics forums got trolled bad .. lol




that being said / quoted from the physics forum . . . I voted "2" :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

duh
5678

I suck at golf and I got it right. :upsidedow

http://www.google.com/search?q=48%C3%B72%289%2B3%29

case closed

288

You add 9 plus 3 then multiply/divide from left to right as per normal.

I still think I'm right with my 288 answer.

The question is written amigously, period. There's no PROOF you can offer to change that.

The standard would be to always use parentheses where a statement is ambiguous without special rules.

If you were looking for the answer 2, shouldn't the question really be written as

48/[2(9+3)] = ?

OR

48
------- = ?
2(9+3)

So yes, it's a pretty clever troll to write an ambigious statement and then argue about the results. However, it will never be a wrong answer to apply the standard order of operations to this equation.

That's the distributive property, Ginger. Not FOIL.

if people are really interested in this crap you should check out the physicsforum post on this

I like this one


this indicates the correct answer is 2 not 288

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthr...=488334&page=6

Whatever, I wasn't 100% sure since FOIL is (X+Y)(T+Z).

Because that's the way you do it, otherwise the equation would be written:
(48÷2)(9+3)=X

If we substitute the X for 2 and 48 for Y so the equation would read:
Y÷2(9+3)=2
Y÷24=2
Y=48

If X were 288 then:
Y÷2(9+3)=288
Y÷24=288
Y=6912 which we already know is incorrect.

I learned it as 'bedmas'
order of operations =
brackets
exponents
division&multiplication
addition and subtraction


answer = 2

http://www.zazzle.com/48_2_9_3_tshir...82834792365529


haha buy the t-shirt ... the answer is 288 I would say

I was going to say 36. Guess i should have finished school.

I got 288 the first time I tried, then checked google calculator and it says 288 too.

So I'm going with 288.

but of course in all reality a math professor has stated that there is no right or wrong

quoted from physics forum

so the correct answer is AMBIGUOUS :1orglaugh

Again, it's an argument of explicit versus implicit multiplication. Something that's not a steadfast rule. The point of the troll is that the original equation is written amigiously.

To write it properly to be solved as 288 it should indeed be written as:

(48÷2)(9+3)=X

By the same token to be solved as 2 it should be written as:

48/(2(9+3))

OR

48
-------
2(9+3)

Were it written in this fashion we could easily agree on the answer. It's not though, so there's no way that applying the standard order of operations to this can be considered "wrong".

It's 288, no sign defaults to multiply 24 x 12 = 288
You do the brackets first = 12
Then outside brackets is 24
There is nothing in between so default is multiply 24 x 12 = 288
Doing rational numbers and getting 24/12 = 2 is cool but it's wrong, that's not what the equation is saying.

YOu are all some smart fuckers.
I used to be good at math too .

Tonight when you are lying awake, and this is bugging you
remember me and use my tube style embeds;)

Why would a sloppily written equation bug anyone?

The point of math is precision which is why you almost never see the ÷ symbol used in physics or engineering.

SHIT, oh my God are you Gordon Brown ? Is the reason the UK economy is gonna take the next 10 years to come right is because you thought that every time you spent £2 Billion it was really £288 Billion.

You can't use philosophy to solve math problems.

Otherwise I'd use Nietzsche's theory and point out that I don't even care what the answer is.

LOL saw this on another board recently ;)

shhhhhh

wn

No. Putting the 2 inside brackets with the 48 changes the order you do the equation in.

WN4L :pimp:pimp:pimp

Don't be an ubermensch.

written exactly like the title says, my natural display scientific calculator says the answer is 72

The correct answer is:

Trying to do an equation that is written incorrectly makes you an idiot.

Or even better

48 / (2 X (9+3)) = 2 (48/24)

(48 / 2) X (9+3) = 288 (24X12)

EDIT: Just noticed you done one of them excactly the same as me. Oh well that just confirms it :)