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9

1

Dumbass alert 🚨🚨

Are people really debating this?

Ppl don't understand basic math

the PEMDAS debate exists bc it’s purposefully ambiguous. you’re never supposed to actually use the ÷ sign, you’re just supposed to use numerators and denominators

both ways to answer (9 and 1) are correct, but the American way of learning PEMDAS would make 9 correct

Every time this is debated, the answer changes

Yeah, it's trending on twitter atm, haha.

I've actually seen an interesting argument that this equation can be solved differently by distributing the 2 into the parentheses, but I think that's an older mathematical concept that aged out (as far as I understood reading on twitter, that is).

I KNEW IT

did the Australian way

More 9 myself.

F*** you, man.

The answer is 9 I suppose, but the real answer is that nobody should write it like that and nobody WOULD write it like that, because it could be misinterpreted.

if I write 1/2x, Do I mean 0.5x or do I mean 1/(2x)? It'd deliberately ambiguous

I can't solve this with PEMDAS

Distributing the 2 still gives you 1 though

6 / (2 + 4)
6 / 6
1

Yeah, that's what I mean.

As explained by another user in this thread, the way most Americans are taught order of operations would lead us to get 9 when solving this problem.

So this is just another instance of Americans thinking their way is the universal way

(1+2) = 3

6/2 = 3

3⋅3 = 9

lock thread.

I think 1

bedmas ? right so
brackets
exponets
divison
mutiple
addition
subtraction

notation for this is wonky

I've never heard it said this way. That's interesting. Where did you learn it?