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Originally Posted by Jel
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.
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You're absolutely correct. This is an example of where parentheses is required to specify that the addition takes priority. Another way of saying this is that the addition happens on a higher level than the multiplication.
As I said, to avoid confusion, the rules of Math always apply. Otherwise you'd come up with different answers to the same equation depending on how you decided to do it.