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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (49 children)

For anyone like me who has math as their worst subject: PEMDAS.

PEMDAS is an acronym used to mention the order of operations to be followed while solving expressions having multiple operations. PEMDAS stands for P- Parentheses, E- Exponents, M- Multiplication, D- Division, A- Addition, and S- Subtraction.

So we gotta do it in the proper order. And remember, if the number is written like 2(3) then its multiplication, as if it was written 2 x 3 or 2 * 3.

So we read 8/2(2+2) and need to do the following;

  • Read the Parentheses of (2 + 2) and follow the order of operations within them, which gets us 4.
  • Then we do 2(4) which is the same as 2 x 4 which is 8
  • 8 / 8 is 1.

The answer is 1. The old calculator is correct, the phone app which has ads backed into it for a thing that all computers were invented to do is inaccurate.

[โ€“] foggianism -1 points 1 year ago

You are correct. This is the right sequence of operations done here.

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