Solve this equation

[cmjh10]

Having a "discussion" with family over the answer. Help me out CF!

 

[besserheimerphat]

PEMDAS: Parentheses left to right, then Exponents left to right, then Multiplication and Division left to right then Addition and Subtraction left to right. I didn't work through the problem to the numerical answer, but PEMDAS is the convention that all math follows.

 

[Clonehomer]

I got 6 1/6

 

[Doc]

Having a "discussion" with family over the answer. Help me out CF!

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I will never be so bored as to get into an order of operations discussion.

 

[bawbie]

PEMDAS: Parentheses left to right, then Exponents left to right, then Multiplication and Division left to right then Addition and Subtraction left to right. I didn't work through the problem to the numerical answer, but PEMDAS is the convention that all math follows.

this is true, but it gives an ugly answer. (5.5+1.666-1)

if you do it left to right ignoring that it comes out to 1

so if probably just a bad question.

 

[bawbie]

I will never be so bored as to get into an order of operations discussion.

Yet here you are...

 

[DSMCy]

this is true, but it gives an ugly answer. (5.5+1.666-1)

if you do it left to right ignoring that it comes out to 1

so if probably just a bad question.

Based on the dashes under the equation, I agree, the answer they want is 1.

 

[bluestarcyclone]

this is true, but it gives an ugly answer. (5.5+1.666-1)

if you do it left to right ignoring that it comes out to 1

so if probably just a bad question.

You have to get into fractions to get a simpler answer, which is just 6 1/6

 

[Cyched]

6.1667 (6 is repeating)

 

[Doc]

Yet here you are...

Damn it

 

[bsaltyman]

Having a "discussion" with family over the answer. Help me out CF!

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6 + (2/4x3/3) - 7 + 6 + (5/3) - (1x1)
6 + (.5) - 7 + 6 + (1.667) - (1)
6.1667 is the answer

 

[Wappadu]

I got 6 1/6

I got 6 1/3. I can't bring myself to go back and check it again. Wonder where I went wrong.

 

[JM4CY]

 

[Cy$]

I got "cmjh is mafia" as my final answer.

 

[mj4cy]

6.17 is what I got

 

[FerShizzle]

1

I think you guys are assuming order of operation and not that this is a sequence. If it had an equal sign at the end and didn’t have individual spaces beneath for the answer following each step sequence then...

 

[tim_redd]

6.1667 (6 is repeating, of course)

 

[cowgirl836]

1

I think you guys are assuming order of operation and not that this is a sequence. If it had an equal sign at the end and didn’t have individual spaces beneath for the answer following each step sequence then...

Agreed. I'm going with 1.

 

[bluestarcyclone]

1

I think you guys are assuming order of operation and not that this is a sequence. If it had an equal sign at the end and didn’t have individual spaces beneath for the answer following each step sequence then...

That may have been what they were going for but that's still not how you solve the equation. It just means that someone on the survivor production team doesnt know how math works.

 

[chiroclone88]

This is what I got. Is that right?