Both are the same question, just interpreted differently. If you're using BODMAS or PEMDAS, which is the correct way then the #2 is the way of solving it. Brackets come first, so 1+2 = 3 Order is next, so 6/2 = 3 3 x 3 = 9
its NOT the same question. in one question you are putting (1+2) above the line. IN the other you are putting it below. Below means you are dividing and above means multiply. so they are quite different. is 5 x 4 the same as 5/4??
No, what I meant was, there is only one question, but two ways of answering it. The 2nd way is the correct way, the answer is 9.
there are two ways of interpreting it but only one way of solving each question. And you dont know which way it is to be interpreted because there are brackets missing. Hence there are two questions and two answers.
Actually, brackets aren't missing at all. This topic is the first time I heard about PEMDAS and stuff (since we don't use this kind of acronyms in Hungary), but there's only one correct way of interpreting it, I think.
There doesn't need to be any more brackets. When you're using BODMAS or PEMDAS then whatever is in the brackets is calculated first (1+2 =3), then you look at the order from left to right and do whatever calculation comes first (6/2).
Sorry for quoting you, because what im saying is aimed at other people but Arabs definitely created math duh.
In my glorious country we use 'BOMDAS' - Brackets Of Multiply Divide Add Subtract. Thus the answer is one.
you get one if you multiply 2*3 and then divide that by 6. but why are you doing that first? you multiply/divide in the order the operations appear in the expression. this is third grade stuff
Huh? I was taught BODMAS, not BOMDAS. Brackets Order Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction Thus the answer is nine.
It's because you do everything left to right. We did PMDASLR Parenthesis Multiply Divide Add Subtract Left (to) Right
Two things, having read all this (and wasted 5 minutes of my life): 1: The answer is 9. Fact. 2: Secondly, jeez... no-one "invented" mathematics - it's a science. Which is why it's a fact that the answer is 9. There's no alternative way to decipher this - just a wrong way and a right way.
