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  • sabbaroni 🧔🏻
    Apr 20, 2021
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    Oblivion X

    I mean in this form as in 6 is the dividend and 2(2+1) would be a divisor and the ÷ which substitutes for the / sign would separate the left hand and right hand elements

    the division sign doesn’t divide both sides though

    if i wrote 4/2+2, that would be 3, not 1

    same logic here

  • Apr 20, 2021

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  • Apr 20, 2021
    gh0stman

    Dumbass alert 🚨🚨

  • Apr 20, 2021
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    Saturday

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    HOWLING

  • Apr 20, 2021
    Puma

    HOWLING

    F*** you, Puma.

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  • Apr 20, 2021
    hemaglox

    Distributing the 2 still gives you 1 though

    6 / (2 + 4)
    6 / 6
    1

    i thought it was accepted by math professors that it was 9 tho

  • Apr 20, 2021
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    sabbaroni

    the division sign doesn’t divide both sides though

    if i wrote 4/2+2, that would be 3, not 1

    same logic here

    But in cases like this implied multiplication takes precedence over division.

    But I see ur point the question is just overall ambiguous in nature and communication

  • sabbaroni 🧔🏻
    Apr 20, 2021
    Oblivion X

    But in cases like this implied multiplication takes precedence over division.

    But I see ur point the question is just overall ambiguous in nature and communication

    it’s still completely ambiguous depending on how you were taught in this situation

    like.. do you read 1/2x as (1/2)x or as 1/(2x)? bc a calculator would read it as (1/2)x

    it all comes down to remembering nobody should ever use the division sign past pre-algebra just as a general rule to avoid confusion

  • Apr 20, 2021

    Been out of high-school for a year miss me with this brain bending bs

  • Apr 20, 2021
    orangejuice

    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.

    how the f*** were you taught how to do math