colorfulenigma:

batmansnumberonefan:

silverpanda:

shell-cottage:

there’s an equation going around as a poll on facebook that’s

6÷2(1+2)=?

And the available choices for answers are 1 and 9.

9 has over 900k votes, while 1 has only 681k.

But wouldn’t 1 be the right answer?

6÷2(1+2)=x

6÷2(3)=x

6÷6=x

1=x

Like how do you even get that wrong? Or am…

 I think the answer should be 1….but apparently when people put it in calculators it says 9.

I think that maybe its been looked at from a point of like…distributing the 6/2. Which really just makes it 3*3…but that still disregards order of operations. :-/ I DONT KNOW. -head explodes-

uhmm i got 1, using the same method you did. sorry i’m not much help :( lol

Okay, people. The answer *is* 1. The reason people putting it into calculators get 9 is because if you just do it from left to right, the answer is 9. 6/2x1+2=9. But…remember order of operations? PEMDAS: parentheses, exponents, multiplication and division, addition and subtraction. Therefore, you do what’s in the parentheses first: 1+2=3. Then you multiply that by the value distributed to it: 3x2=6. Then divide 6 by that: it’s 1. Tadaaaaaa, magic math!

I think it’s 9 because (1 2)=3 obviously but then since division comes before multiplication 6/2(3)=(6/2)(3)=(3)(3)=9 and my sis agrees and she’s in algebra. So that’s what I believe it to be.