6÷2(1+2)=?

[FutureDental88]

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So, there is this poll going on on facebook where the math problem is :
6÷2(1+2)=?

The answer is either 1 or 9.

I personally thought it would be 1. But there are more votes on 9.

There are 2 million people who vote for 1
And 2.5 million people who vote for 9.


Whats the answer?????

 

[Long Way to Go]

6÷2(1+2)
=6÷2(3)
=3(3)
=9

pe(md)(as).

 

[YoonS]

6/2(1+2)

You always have to solve from paranthesis first.

Which gives the answer 1

It's not 9

If you simply put all the equation to calculator, it will give 9

but since the calculator ignore parenthesis, its not a correct answer

 

[KyoPhan]

Nm, i googled this and youtubed this, and there's some massive argument on it's interpretation.

I did it from left to right, and also got 9.

 

[Doc Smile]

So, there is this poll going on on facebook where the math problem is :
6÷2(1+2)=?

The answer is either 1 or 9.

I personally thought it would be 1. But there are more votes on 9.

There are 2 million people who vote for 1
And 2.5 million people who vote for 9.


Whats the answer?????

:troll:

Know your memes people. Trolls gonna troll.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/48293

 

[dentalWorks]

:troll:

Know your memes people. Trolls gonna troll.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/48293

good find

 

[Jackson-Ave-Dental]

Whatever happened to teaching, Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (PEMDAS)?

 

[Doc Smile]

Whatever happened to teaching, Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (PEMDAS)?

the problem with the question is that is asks it with an ambiguous fraction. When solving a complex fraction like that, you have to solve everything underneath the fraction before solving the fraction. Follow that link above and it gives a pretty dang good explanation of why the question sucks and no educated person should even bother with it.

 

[Muggsy Bogues]

Answer is really 9 but this is a question put forth to troll everyone. Not shocked it made it here.

While we're at it...

hree guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?

 

[Jackson-Ave-Dental]

the problem with the question is that is asks it with an ambiguous fraction. When solving a complex fraction like that, you have to solve everything underneath the fraction before solving the fraction. Follow that link above and it gives a pretty dang good explanation of why the question sucks and no educated person should even bother with it.

I gotcha.
Should really be more specific by including brackets 😳

 

[Doc Smile]

Answer is really 9 but this is a question put forth to troll everyone. Not shocked it made it here.

While we're at it...

hree guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?

Bell hop had $5, gave each one back $1. The total now would be $25 + $1x3 = $28 +$2 he kept himself = $30

Duh