The daily quiz writer obviously has never heard of BODMAS.
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Stuff has now given the correct answer as one of the choices an hour later...
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6 comments:
You lost me - but then I could never do that sort of maths. Adding, subtracting, muliplication and division have served me well enough through 64 years.
BTW my guessed answer got a tick.
Brackets
Or
Division
Multiplication
Addition
Subtraction
is the order to attack this problem
brackets
(6-3) = 3
division
3/2 = 1.5
addition
24 + 1.5 = none of the possible answers
Spot on, PM. It's all the NCEA qualified journalist they use these days.
Thank God they're not doing something important like being bus drivers.
BEDMAS actually.
Brackets
Exponents
...the rest is correct.
Anon, picky.
In the United States, the acronym PEMDAS or "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally is common. It stands for Parentheses, Exponentiation, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. In other English speaking countries, Parentheses may be called Brackets, and Exponentiation may be called either Indices, Powers or Orders, and since multiplication and division are of equal precedence, M and D are often interchanged, leading to such acronyms as BEDMAS, BIDMAS, BIMDAS, BODMAS, BOMDAS and BPODMAS.
from wikipedia
The point was that Stuff had stuffed the stuffing of the answer, no matter how we got there...
25.5, whats hard about it?
You either know the order of funtions or you don't have the computer programming certificate.
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