I hate people at my school is now math conversation

[pocketrocket300]

If I saw 6/2, I would distribute.
If I saw 6(insert division symbol here)2, I wouldn't.
Strange how that works.

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[Domidore66]

See, I get that, but does the parentheses really stay the WHOLE time, or are they eventually denoted after values from the outside interact with the values on the inside? I was taught by all of my teachers that the parentheses alone with just one value and no other equation on the inside was just like multiplying, and that it was treated as such during order of operations.

See, how you get the answer is based on how the order of operations is taught to you. 1 and 9 are both the answers here.

[Azerath]

But that shouldn't be true. There should be a true and definite process to it that gets one solid answer. It isn't 6/2(1+2) = ? and ?
It should only be one value.

[Monocle]

True.
So here's my way of thinking:
6/2(1+2)
The values in the parentheses are added...
6/2(3)
But what you are doing with the parentheses is really just the same as multiplying, so you do the division first, since multiplication and division are on the same level and are done left to right.
3(3)
9
I can see what you mean though, how the parenthesis are still there, so you multiply the 2 by the 3 in the parentheses to get 6.
6/2(1+2)
6/2(3)
6/(6)
See, I get that, but does the parentheses really stay the WHOLE time, or are they eventually denoted after values from the outside interact with the values on the inside? I was taught by all of my teachers that the parentheses alone with just one value and no other equation on the inside was just like multiplying, and that it was treated as such during order of operations.

Yeah, I was taught a different way. Seeing as how the parenthesis in the equation is eventual multiplication, it would require you to do 2(3). Upon getting 6, the equation is 6 divided by [greater node(6)]. I called it greater node, because its the higher power in the equation, seeing as how you do it first. Since there is no secondary value to 6/(6)=? Then the equation may as well state 6/6 due to the fact there's nothing to multiply. You can't do 6 divided by multipled to (6), its a syntax error.

If that makes any sense?

[Azerath]

Makes sense, but I still think there should be one definite way that should be straightened out.
Night time for me. :P

[Domidore66]

But that shouldn't be true. There should be a true and definite process to it that gets one solid answer. It isn't 6/2(1+2) = ? and ?
It should only be one value.

Which is why I stated earlier it was a troll question, I've seen countless math questions like these on 4chan and you can't fathom how much people bicker among themselves trying to figure out the right answer and prove why their answer is right and the other answer is wrong. The person who made that question should have made it so that you can only get one answer from it; such as adding another parenthesis.

[Monocle]

Makes sense, but I still think there should be one definite way that should be straightened out.
Night time for me. :P

Sleep tight mate. :D

[Trifax]

I think, despite what anyone says, the most logical answer is 9. Because! Even if the parentheses are not being eliminated after doing 1+2, they are only acting as symbols for multiplication at this point because 3 is the only term inside the parentheses.

Therefore, because multiplication and division rank the same priority, and are done in the same step left to right, the only answer is 9.

People are getting 1 because they are distributing the 2, which is wrong and out of order.

I gotta go sleep too, school tomorrow, might have to bike.

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Well hello dipforget.  I was just about ready to pack it in for the night.

6
- * (1 + 2)
2

6 * 3
-
2

18
 -     = 9
 2

But that isn't true.
6 / 2(1 + 2)
6 / (2 + 4)
6 / (6)
1

forget yourself.

[Azerath]

Did you not read any of the thread? We discussed this whole thing and all the possible outcomes and why they all work.
We also discussed how everyone gets mad because they think they're right, when there are actually 2 answers. :)

[Trifax]

Well hello dipforget.  I was just about ready to pack it in for the night.

-math0

forget yourself.

You call me the dipforget? You're either trolling or handicapped. The (1+2) is not part of the numerator. I was laughing at what you said because fractions are division. 1/2 isn't any different than 1÷2, it's just written in the fraction form as opposed to 0.5

That's uber basic though, you should be able to figure that out. Instead you try to pull some bullstuff putting stuff in the numerator...

[Freeze]

because the majority of them are terrible.

my school is good and its public :)

[Trifax]

Talked to my math teacher today, in less than 10 seconds he got 9. The way the problem was written originally as 6÷2(1+2), the answer is 9.

It would only be 1 if it was written as 6÷(2(1+2)

[Edman]

this topic is now about math

[Trifax]

Oh hohooooo it was about math a long time ago my friend.