48÷2(9+3)
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I'm starting to wonder perhaps you didn't even bother to punch it on a scientific calculator...? http://www.mathsisfun.com/scientific-calculator.html
Yes they show multiplication there but they dont show a parentheses as what 2(9+3) is.
That is the point that everyone is missing.
This thread is like watching a huge pile up on the highway. lol
Take up stevoo's challenge. Try to find a scientific calculator that will agree with you. Here's another one that says I'm right: http://my.hrw.com/math06_07/nsmedia/tools/Sci_Calculator/Sci_Calculator.html
Find another source besides "purplemath" that states that BEDMAS means "Do the inside and outside of brackets first".
BTW, here's another calculator that does it right: http://www.picalc.com/
[video=youtube;gFKGbU6ARQg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFKGbU6ARQg[/video]
Its called PEDMAS, its says the very first thing you do is Parentheses.
Find an example saying that in 2(9+3) you don't simplify before solving?
Prove to me that you can put an x anywhere in the equation and be able to solve for it?
LOL, you're batting .000:
They need yo take that away from you then lol.
Motorcycle Mike
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After the brackets are done, division and multiplication have equal importance. the 2 beside the (9+3) does not take preference to 48/2. MSc from Waterloo here.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=48%C3%B72%289%2B3%29
After the brackets are done, division and multiplication have equal importance. the 2 beside the (9+3) does not take preference to 48/2. MSc from Waterloo here.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=48%C3%B72%289%2B3%29
Proof:
Sorry for the written page, I didn't want to type it all out again.
Having posted that, I totally understand what you are saying. However, I find no universal citation that states the distributive property of multiplication takes precedence within BEDMAS (PEDMAS, BODMAS, toe-MAY-toe, toe-MAH-toe).
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Proof:
Sorry for the written page, I didn't want to type it all out again.
Having posted that, I totally understand what you are saying. However, I find no universal citation that states the distributive property of multiplication takes precedence within BEDMAS (PEDMAS, BODMAS, toe-MAY-toe, toe-MAH-toe).
But when you said 9+x can't be reduced, it can, you can simplify the parentheses through the distributive property before you move on to your division.
How can you be able to remove the parentheses but just skip it and move farther down in PEDMAS?
if it was (x+y) with no number or variable (the 2) associated with it then yes you could skip it and move to division. but it can be simplified which means you should do that first.
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Don't argue with this man, he's asian and have a degree from Waterloo, lol
I was taught specifically that the B in BEDMAS meant that only the *INSIDE* of the brackets were to be solved first.
After that, the distributive property of multiplication is of *EQUAL* precedence with division, so that's when you begin to solve left-to-right.
I was taught that you simplify then solve. So if you can remove parentheses then that should be done first.
because if you solve it the other way then 48/2(9+3) = 48(9+3)/2.
I want to take this to my math professor and see what he says but he would probably slap me for such horribly written problem lol
because if you solve it the other way then 48/2(9+3) = 48(9+3)/2.
I want to take this to my math professor and see what he says but he would probably slap me for such horribly written problem lol
