Interesting! At first I thought to myself, what's the problem? The answer is 9! I couldn't see another way to look at it until I forced myself to figure out what other answer someone could be getting (which is actually a very teacher-like thing to do! anticipate possible wrong answers!)
6÷2(3)= 6÷6 = 1
However, BEDMAS is pretty clear cut. If someone were arguing that the answer is 1 then they are not following the rules of BEDMAS since they would have done the multiplication before the division. BEDMAS says that when it comes to the multiplication and division (and addition/subtraction) you are to do whichever one comes first when reading it left to right. If you are following those rules then the answer is 9. I actually typed this into an online calculator exactly as is and the solution came up as 9.
Life could have been made simpler had it just been written (6÷2)(1+2) though hah.
Interesting! At first I thought to myself, what's the problem? The answer is 9! I couldn't see another way to look at it until I forced myself to figure out what other answer someone could be getting (which is actually a very teacher-like thing to do! anticipate possible wrong answers!)
ReplyDelete6÷2(3)= 6÷6 = 1
However, BEDMAS is pretty clear cut. If someone were arguing that the answer is 1 then they are not following the rules of BEDMAS since they would have done the multiplication before the division. BEDMAS says that when it comes to the multiplication and division (and addition/subtraction) you are to do whichever one comes first when reading it left to right. If you are following those rules then the answer is 9. I actually typed this into an online calculator exactly as is and the solution came up as 9.
Life could have been made simpler had it just been written (6÷2)(1+2) though hah.