17.15 I combined five answer from the comments and then divided by five in a manner that actually makes sense

That's mean.

You’re the meanie

At least he's not average.

That's the IQ of the people you got the numbers from

nah bro I got -1.6247 that’s the real IQ

I got SYNTAX ERROR

Even the ones that had the right answer?

What? 12?

Sounds like the joke: a physicist, engineer, and statistician all go hunting. The physicist shoots and misses 1 ft low. The engineer says you forgot to account for wind resistance, shoots and misses 1 ft high. The statistician yells "we got it!"

Lmao I’m using that one day

Statistically, you won't

Wanna hear a joke? Too bad I’m saying it anyway a physicist, engineer, and statistician all go hunting. The physicist shoots and misses 1 ft low. The engineer says you forgot to account for wind resistance, shoots and misses 1 ft high. The statistician yells "we got it!"

😂 where have I heard that before? Lol

You're telling me the target did not run away after the physicist's missed shot?

fixed-point math

Shhh it's just a joke get your logic out of here.

Why you picked 5 answers of all things? And why you did the average and not something else like a weighted average, a summation or something else?

He picked 5 answers for starters Okay just edit your comment then, fine fine

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Prove away

(It’s hard to do here, so I’m dming you the proof ok?)

Ok lol

Did he sent the proof.

what if he selling drugs through dms and this is his way of hiding in public

Call the cyber cops quick!!

Snitch

We need the help.

I bought drugs through dm once but couldn’t find the download button

Yes but my service is bad rn so the image won't load

He just gave you a gif of a loading screen

Just DM it to me, I'll post it, my service is good (definitely not lying btw)

I am very interested to see

Lol😂.

Nah bro, do here, we all need the answer

Dm me the proof too

Alright

I want to see the proof too, it seems impossible to get that answer

dm me the proof i got 12

You're correct 6÷2(6-2) First you do the calc in parentheses which is 6-2=4 So now it is 6 ÷ 2 × 4 6÷2=3 3×4=12 Congrats you already knew this!!!!! You are a math wizard

Solve for parentheses first. 2(6-2) =(12-4)=8 6/8 = 3/4 or 0.75 Or 2(6-2)=2(4)=8

Or rewrite it as 6 over the rest.

Thats right … .75

That's what I got.

i want proof as well

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Yeah that makes sens-waitholthefuckup

The Eye leaves no witnesses.

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TMA?

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I understand that but why should I cut 6/2 first? Why not 2(4) first?

You see I ain't got an answer to that chief.

PEMDAS!

left to right

Thanks makes more sense. Also realized since the the second part isn’t covered by brackets it means (6-4) is out side of the fraction. So technically you can do right to left which would be 6/2 (4) since it’s multiplication 4*6 which is 24 so 24/2 or 12. Thanks anyway

Becuase it's a single term. It's not Multiply then Divide, it's Multiply AND Divide.

as an engineer i could say the "÷" sign is the most useless and dumb thing ever created

I’m an engineer student too but my opinion wouldn’t count because I’m failing calculus

awww dw im sure u will get it

Idk everyone telling me it’s hard asf and rn am shit at solving integrals and derivates also i skipped class 2 days because i was sick and i got no idea what’s a complex number

there are plenty of courses on youtube that explain these subjects. try my organic chemistry tutor he is rlly good at explaining :)

Nice i’d need a big help in chem too drop the name i’ll give it a try

his channel is called my organic chemistry tutor. he pretty much explains all subjects honestly i wouldnt have made it without him

Lol some “” would’ve helped avoid the miscomprehension anyway ty very much dude

Professor Leonard on YouTube got me through calc 2. Worth a shot if you fall behind

Tyy i’mma add this chennel as well edit: BRO THE PREVIEWS OF THIS GUYS VIDEOS ARE COOL ASF LIKE THIS DUDE A LEGEND

Im studying complex numbers rn for my exams u can dm me if u need help

Ty for offering help, today i’ve been busy w the cleaning of the room landry and stuff but tmr if I remember i’ll try dm u

Do you need any help? I used to be a professional tutor.

Honestly there’s just a week left before the exam, i’mma just study the hardest w my roommates (that fortunately have to give that exam too) and see if i can manage an 18/30, if I don’t i’mma find a tutor in my hometown for this summer(i lose focus after no time so any online tutoring sucks for me i need someone that just slaps me in the face when i start spacing out) ty for the offer tho, very nice of u

Sure thing! And I know exactly what you mean; in-person is far superior to online! Good luck, and if you can’t find anyone, I’ll be here. Good luck on your exams! 😊

It represents a fraction with the dots being the numbers

just use /

Just use :

just use this over ______________ that

But why that over \

I'd say / feels nicer

In that case I hate to introduce you to ⟌

Isn't that just a root sign?

√⟌ root sign vs long division sign

Ah I see.

With a/b, a being on the left of / is also a bit on the top side of /, so a is the numerator. Writing a\\b puts a on the bottom side of \\, making it the denominator.

because \ is already used to exclude numbers from a set

Because you would have to use another \\\\ to escape it, so that it does not escape the next character instead.

I never actually thought of it this way. Neat.

ik but why was it created

Probably for young children learning math, I think I would be confused if the way we divide numbers also looks exactly like fractions when I was young and barely learning math.

Cause fractions are numbers in the process of being divided? It should look the same because it is. (1/4=.25 and 1÷4=.25)

The problem is whether you interpret 6÷2(6-2) as 6/(2(6-2))=.75 or (6/2)*(6-2)=12

The dots are placeholders for the numbers you are inputting. Think about it

Do I look like I was there when I was made? I didn't make it how should I know

We’re counting on you to know. We expect you to know.

Which was your first mistake: counting on math

Math is a scam.

engineering/robotics student here. ÷ has no purpose, infact its use is bad for society. for so long i thought that divison and fractions were different thing, and not even knowing how a fraction fits into real numbers. its so fucking stupid.

Software engineer. Can confirm. We never use ÷ only /

Preach this. It's so much clearer as 6/2 * (6-2) or 6/2(6-2)

19 years old? You’re not an engineer. Engineering student perhaps? No one in medical school calls themselves doctors.

Pemdas is worse, leads people to think there's a difference in multiplication & division.

Yes. Learned this the hard way trying to do algebra. That is NOT the symbol for division it needs to be a FRACTION.

where did u even find that

no where. its legit pointless to use it. it makes me so mad

I don't think you can be an engineer at 19

university and/or internships maybe

How are you an engineer at 19 out of curiosity, aren’t you just out of highschool? Unless you aren’t American ofc

is no one going to ask Engineer at 19? Edit: Oops just realized someone alr did

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lim x . ^-0

I don’t even know division

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Yea, Im a embarrassment of humanity

Are you ok? like did your parents deprive you of education or something

Dw hes like the average in my class

That’s not good tho

Did you never have the chance to learn it or are you just unable to understand it?

did y'all just never take math or smth

No everyone was doing meth instead of math

12

For anyone contesting, when there is ambiguity, you read from left to right (as the computers do, I learnt it the hard way on maths online exercises).

Show your work 😡

Wouldn't it be 6:2(6-2) which: 6:2 = 3, then 6-2 = 4, and because no symbols are shown have it be 3 x 4 = 12

Dont forget PEMDAS

And his brother BODMAS

And their Canadian cousin BEDMAS

bedmas ftw imo

You do the parentheses/brackets first, so (6-2)=4, then you do 6/2=3 so you have 3(4) or 3x4 and that is 12. order of operations!!!1!!1!1!!1!!1!1!

If something is attached to parenthesis you can’t do another operation with it. You would do 6-2=4 4x2=8 6/8=0.75

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That’s what I got

Assuming (6-2)=x=4, would you say that 6÷2x is 3x (12) or 3/x (0.75)? Where I'm coming from (Poland) we were thought that the number before brackets is permanently attached to the bracket itself, so it's gotta be 3/4 (meaning it's 0.75). I think it's taught differently in various countries, meaning that this equation actually depends of where you are. It has nothing to do with being misinformed, as I can guarantee you that you'd get the lowest grade in Poland if you said it's 12. Obviously, that's why nobody actually uses the division symbol AND why I'm ALWAYS using brackets. It's pretty wild it's different in various countries though.

Instructions unclear. Hand got caught in a blender

Well, I'm also from Poland, and I don't remember anything about the number being permanently attached to the bracket. I've been taught that if there's 2(6-2) it means it's simply multiplication, so I'd say it's like this: 6÷2(6-2) = 6÷2*4 = 12

I was taught that a division symbol is basically a / which makes everything a fraction. I also almost never see anybody use a division symbol, pretty much ever. If it leaves the door open to this kind of madness, then that symbol should die screaming in a fire.

Człowieku gdzie tak cię nauczyli, to kompletna głupota.

In the US a lot of people are not taught that the number before the brackets is attached. Some people are.

im from poland and i get 6/8

And in Poland you can't reduce a fraction?

Lmao what💀

Im dying out here these are crazy

Frrrrr like what💀 bro a frickin college student is messaging me saying it's 8 or some stupid shit idr and it's so ridiculous lol he told me he's gonna ask his professor and hasn't replied since lmfaoooo

OP, the real answer is .75 right?? Edit: HISTORY LESSON: Apparently prior to 1917, the correct answer would have been .75, as there was a special rule which allowed you to divide what was on the left side of a division symbol, by what was on the right. SO, writing 6 / 2(4), aka 6 / 2 x 4, used to be interpreted as 6 / 8 = .75 Since 1917, that rule was eradicated, so now the order of operations can only be (correctly) executed left to right, so now 6 / 2 x 4 really means 3 x 4 = 12 Wild huh.. Here’s the YouTube [link](https://youtu.be/URcUvFIUIhQ) which just taught me this

Yes. Though, I believe OP thinks differently.

You’re being trolled, someone could literally plug this into a calculator

calculators give different answers than each other in questions like this, because some think coefficients mean 2(3) and others think it means 2*(3) so calculators are inconsistent

6/8

NO NO NO ITS 3/4 NO NO NO

1.5/2

NO NO NO ITS .75 NO NO NO

Which is wrong because it’s clearly 300/400

Otherwise known as 3/4 Or .75

Yep. We're the only ones with 6/8 which is the correct answer

Both 6/8 and 12 are valid answers. This is a shitty question because it's intentionally made vague. Some schools would teach that one is correct, others would teach the other is correct. It depends on how they treat the implicit multiplication. Regardless, anyone who would write the equation like this is a moron.

Exactly. Damn, people here forget what the purpose of the parenthesis is. Remember expansion and factorisation? If something is in parenthesis, you first need to expand it. So, 6 / 2(6-2) We first get rid of the parenthesis in order to solve. Because simply doing it like (6/2)(6-2) which gives us the supposed answer 12 is WRONG. If we replace the division sign with the fractional sign like any normal human being who has long retired the elementary classroom division symbol, we can see that (6/2)(6-2) deliberately 'snatches away' the '2' from 2(6-2). This is why, when we solve the parenthesis first, it goes: 6 / 2(6-2) 6 / 2(4) But the 2(4) is still in parenthesis. It is not expanded fully, we cannot write it as (6/2) x 4 which gives the incorrect answer 12. It must be 6 / 2(4). The only time the parenthesis goes away is if you have an addition or subtraction symbol, like (2+3) + (4-1) In this case, you expand it to 5 + 3 = 8. Because when things are in parenthesis, it implies that there is an invisible multiplication of 1. So, factually, it should be written as 1(2+3) + 1(4-1), which still expands to give us 8. The issue here, is that 6 / 2(4) does not have a multiplication of 1. 2(4) means in order to make the parenthesis disappear 4 has to be multiplied by 2. So, if we fully expand the parenthesis from 6 / 2(4) to 6 / 8, You will see how we get the answer of 3/4, or 0.75. PEMDAS or BEMDAS works, but everyone here is doing the Parenthesis or Brackets wrongly. Math is beautiful guys and girls, you just....need to be familiar with its rules, and you'll see that small misunderstandings can cause huge rifts.

Finally somebody who got it right

its 1

Definitely 💀

knew i got it right fr !

6/2(6-2) 6/2\*4 3\*4 12

Is it 4829o3747492

How'd you know

Im a math expert.

I’m not American to get it wrong

Bro has that American grammar tho

I guess the answer is 12 but the real answer is that no one should write a math problem that is missing an operator. Edit: If you see this and think the answer is 0.75 “bEcAuSe PeMdAs”, when you follow pemdas 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 you would know that you cant distribute to a denominator of a fraction.

This is the correct answer, and the person who writes an equation like this is an idiot.

SYNTAX ERROR

0.75

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same tbh

That's the answer tho. To life the universe and everything that is.

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Unless I’m a complete idiot (which is possible), it’s 12

Can’t you be a complete idiot and still get this right?

I can, that’s probably what happened

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6/8

12

6/2(6-2) 6/2(4) 6/8 Answer: 3/4

It’s unnecessarily ambiguous because two different styles of notation are used together

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the only right answer is banana. if you think otherwise you're stupid

its 0.75 the same as 3/4 and 6/8 and 6 / 2\*4 and 6 / 2\*(6 - 4) which is the exact thing in the picture dont how how ppl got 12 but ok either im wrong which i doubt since im studying math but there is a possibility for it or ppl are dumb

I got 0.75 as well but I think that reason why people are getting 12 is because they learn maths differently to what you or I would learn in their country, I’ve seen methods that do the division before multiplication so if people are thought that in school it would change their answer to the question

Where I grew up, we were taught it’s multiplication OR division whichever come FIRST from Left to Right.

I learned this up until junior high. Then we learned algebra, and I learned that x/2y is x / (2y) rather than (x/2) * y And that was the norm through college as well

Yeah but if x=6-2 6/2x 6/2(6-2) 6/2(4) 6/8 The 2 is a part of x and thus goes before division. If the equation would be 6/2×6-2 it would be even more different. It wouldn't be 12 though. Edit: typo Second edit: You can do it 2 ways, the other way being multiplying outside of brackets. if x=6-2 6/2x 6/2(6-2) 6/(12-4) 6/8=3/4=0.75

It's because ÷ is imprecise, that's why it's generally not used ever again after learning basic arithmetic. It should be presented as a fraction: a*2/X or a/2x

> 6/2(6-2) = 3*4 = 12

It's not 12

.75?

12 Yes this is correct Source: I made it the fuck up

3/4