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Originally Posted by Si
You weren't taught wrong, maybe you just weren't taugh BODMAS aswell. That is why these questions exist, it's not because they can easily be done wrong. It's because they can be done 2 different ways.
If I wanted to know what 2 lots of 7+5 were. I could write it down like 7 + 5 X 2 = ?
And everyone here saying 41 is the right answer to this equation would get my equation wrong.
I wanted to know what 7 + 5 x 2 = ?. And the answer to my question is 24.
If you use BODMAS it would be 17.
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Ok wait now I'm fucking confused - either the bodmas rule ALWAYS applys, or it doesn't. Seems it always does, and the answer should always be 17, even though 10 hours ago I'd have said 24.
I was taught bodmas in the sense that anything in brackets was done that way, but that without those brackets, bodmas didn't enter into it. Which is obviously what a bunch of us were taught also, hence us looking like cunts :D
So your question, you would have to arrange (7 + 5) x 2, else it's always gonna be 17. Apparently.