6 - 1 x 0 + 2 / 2 =

[Dover]

I went for 1......But them I'm thick.

 

[SK1NT]

And 1, 8, and 9. You can see the answer being 1, but that doesn't make it right.

1 and 7 are the most likely/commons answers that will be given. The poll shows this.

Show me the math to get to the other answers?

 

[mlg57]

Yes i'm 50 odd and had forgotten that Division and multiplication come first. The answers is 7 not 1 as I first thought.

 

[Triggaaar]

1 and 7 are the most likely/commons answers that will be given. The poll shows this.

Ok, understood.

Show me the math to get to the other answers?

Read the thread and people are explaining how they get different answers.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

So 5 x 0 = 5?

If you already have 5 and x that 5 by nothing the answer is 5 !!!!! Who's the dunce now !!!

 

[skipper734]

The real answer is of course, that any calculation should be written in the order, that the proposer of the calculation intended the answer come out at.
It didn't bother Isaac and not until Bertrand and his mate Alf started fannying around did we have BODMAS. It also didn't bother Mr Illingworth at the Knoll where I managed to get 95% in my Maths O level in the early 60's. I had never heard of BODMAS until this came up before, and I enquired of my 15 year old who had been schooled in it. He is now doing Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Geography A level. He must like a challenge.
But if a calculation can have so many right answers, apart from some rules laid down by a couple of Mathmaticians during the first world war, it makes you wonder if everything works as it should do. Maybe on a closely related reality amplifiers really do go up to 11 and Alan Turing invented the personal programmable computer.

 

[leigull]

If you already have 5 and x that 5 by nothing the answer is 5 !!!!! Who's the dunce now !!!

times anything by 0 and it's still 0

7 is most definitely the right answer

 

[Phat Baz 68]

So if you have 6-1 which is 5 then x that 5 you have by 0 that makes 0 does it
So what has happened to the 5 you have then has it magically disappeared into the ether ??

You havent taken 5 away you have simply multiplied that 5 by 0 which still leaves with the 5 from 6-1 !!!!!!

 

[gazingdown]

Are you trolling or really that innumerate?

 

[Phat Baz 68]

times anything by 0 and it's still 0

7 is most definitely the right answer

So what has happened to the 5 from 6-1 then at the start It doesnt disappear just because you x it by 0 !!! Its still there !!

 

[SK1NT]

Ok, understood.
Read the thread and people are explaining how they get different answers.

Have read the thread.. and see many examples of but haven't seen a 2 or a 3 or a 4 yet...

 

[Acker79]

So if you have 6-1 which is 5 then x that 5 you have by 0 that makes 0 does it
So what has happened to the 5 you have then has it magically disappeared into the ether ??

You havent taken 5 away you have simply multiplied that 5 by 0 which still leaves with the 5 from 6-1 !!!!!!

1x0 = 0
2x0 = 0+0
3x0 = 0+0+0
4x0 = 0+0+0+0
5x0 = 0+0+0+0+0

3x5 = three 5s = 5+5+5
2x5 = two 5s = 5+5
1x5 = one 5 = 5
0x5 = no fives = 0

 

[teaboy]

So what has happened to the 5 from 6-1 then at the start It doesnt disappear just because you x it by 0 !!! Its still there !!

No it isn't - you multiplied it by zero.

How many aeroplanes do I own? 0. If I have 5x this number, how many do I have? Remember, multiplication is NOT the same as addition.

 

[sydney]

6 - 1 = 5 x 0 = 0+2/2=1.......................the answer is 1.

 

[ants4t]

Well I put 5, I knew the rule that you do some parts first but I get that the wrong way round and did the plus and subtract first.

 

[ants4t]

It is calculated like this : 6 - (1 x 0) + (2 / 2)

 

[leigull]

So what has happened to the 5 from 6-1 then at the start It doesnt disappear just because you x it by 0 !!! Its still there !!

Multiply anything by zero and it's zero: 5 x 0 = 0. 100 x 0 = 0. Try it on a calculator!

It is calculated like this : 6 - (1 x 0) + (2 / 2)

This is correct: 6 - (0) + (1) i.e. 6+1 = 7

The answer is 7

 

[sydney]

Multiply anything by zero and it's zero: 5 x 0 = 0. 100 x 0 = 0. Try it on a calculator!



This is correct: 6 - (0) + (1) i.e. 6+1 = 7

The answer is 7

f*** off with yer brackets sunshine.

 

[leigull]

f*** off with yer brackets sunshine.

No

 

[Dub-67]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations

bloomin hell I got it wrong. I said 1, but it actually is 7