6/2(1+2) = ?

11? Sweet googely moogely, no wonder Julie keeps you around!

You name just got changed to ChrisTriPod.

 

Hey Google answered:

http://www.google.ca/search?client=...&bih=575&q=6/2(1+2)=&meta=&btnG=Google+Search


Answer is 9!!!

 

When I see that, I think of 6/2(1+2) assuming that 6 is the NUMERATOR and 2(1+2) is the DENOMINATOR so that equals 1. Of course, if it's the other way around, it's 9. What's funny is this is probably on a 1st graders test and 99.9% of them got it right!

 

Not that I care any more but Like i said this is what i emailed my math professor last night:

"I have a question that has nothing to do with the class. Is the answer
to this equation "6/2(1+2)=?" equals 9 or 1?

This is why I am asking
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/154271-6-2-1-2-a.html

for the record I thinks its 1

Thanks"

and this is what she said:

"The way it's typed it's 9. If the (1 + 2) is under the fraction bar, then it is 1."

In other words id depends on how you are looking at where the (1+2) is placed, so technically both groups are right because we can not tell where the (1+2) is placed.


Settled? Cool

 

Yup. Thanks hahaa. I was confused on this. Good job

 

clearly the answer is 1. as in "this is 1 too many math problems for the day"

 

This^ this is what i think of you right now

 

Well you would never write it (1+2)6/2 ... but you would write 6(1+2)/2. That is 1.

Now I'm no math professor, and I haven't taken a math class in 22 years. And with the advent of computer technology, I am sure rules of nomenclature have shifted to some degree to compensate for the computer's linear equation writing nature (on paper we tend to write more spatially). So I would agree that there might be some ambiguity here.

There may be a generational thing at play too, because my old eyes would never see the "2(1+2)" as written all under the fraction bar. If you want to isolate ALL of "2(1+2)" under the fraction bar, then you would write the equation as 6/(2(1+2)) .. note the extra parentheses. That does give you an answer of 1.



As it is written, without the extra parentheses, I am right...

 

then this whole debate could of been yougins vs oldies im sure theres a good picture o this let me look for one

 

it's 9. Please tell me they gave this answer already.... It's 9.... whatever is in the parenthesis has be be able to be moved within the problem to read the same answer no matter what.... otherwise order of operations would have a huge flaw.... it's not rocket science... it's a simple math problem....

M and D are read left to right..... like A and S are....

(1 + 2) = (3)

6/2(3) = either 9 or 1 depending on how you look at it

(3)6/2 = 9 no matter HOW YOU LOOK AT IT!!!!!!!

So answer is 9 and can only be 9 because there can't be flexibility in mathmatics....

 

someone else can find a picture, i just made the mistake of doing an image search of fit guys

 

this thread is making me emo lol

10 years of trolling the internet and internet arguments and a simple math thread ruins my life.. GOOD GAME

 

fit guys and this is what popped up for me....

 

9
Out of context your sig is even better!

 

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

 

I love that you linked this thread to your math teacher haha... I bet she read the entire thing.

 

Why is this still going on?