6/2(1+2)

[quote=The_Nameless_Bard]hm my brain hurts. Why the hell do they tell you to always do multiplication first if it's not true.[/quote]

[quote=IceCreamy][quote=Lugignaf] [quote=IceCreamy] Simple... First you have to everything between the brackets. So: 6/2*3, which is obviously 9 since multiplication and division are equal in terms of math. [/quote] That's the way I learned it, yep. [/quote] Actually I also learned that thing that Nameless wrote, PEMDAS (though in Dutch it is different :P). However that is so old, and was dismissed so long ago... Now you have to do brackets first, then multiplication/division, then squares/square roots, and then positive or negative addition. From left to right, if you have to choose.[/quote]

[quote=The_Nameless_Bard]Well...my college algebra teacher was stuck in the past then... how annoying.[/quote]

[quote=Blowfeld]TL;DR: 6/2(1+2)=9 6/[2(1+2)]=1[/quote]

[quote=Lugignaf]Don't forget exponents first![/quote]

[quote=Kirluu]As I said earlier, the answer should be 1, because the / implicates that a fraction is happening. This means that the calculation looks like this (somewhat): 6 / 2 * (2 + 1) This leads us to: 6 / 6 Which is 1. Why do I say this? Because in order to follow the whole concept of "left to right", it would have to be this division sign: ÷, and not the /, since the / is another way to show that you are working with a fraction, however without capability of image-wise showing it.[/quote]

[quote=Nighthawk]BEDMAS is how I learned it :P 6/2{1+2) = 9 6/2(3) since you do brackets first then you can't reduce brackets any further so you just take them out and it ends up 6/2*3 multiplication and division are equal, they go in order of which is first in the equation so you do 6/3 in this case. So it's 3*3 = 9 :PPP edit^ That indicates division, not fractions. :P at least for me, who has no idea how da fak to do the division sign on the computer, and I think that was what the OP meant :c[/quote]

[quote=Kirluu]Alright, my little puppies. Let me shed some more of my God almighty light on this: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110427155042AACb7d8 There you go. Discussion over. The whole first part of the answer is semi-irrelevant, since here, we are looking at / and not ÷. As this teacher with a docterate in mathematics says, / can implicate both "divided by", but it can also imply a fraction. So actually (I admit my previous answers have been misleading), both answers are correct, simply depending on how you interpret the /. If ÷ had been used, then there would be no exception to the fact that the answer would be 9, because you will normally simply go from left to right, indeed. /thread [b]EDIT:[/b] How I found out what the answer is (aka both, because it's an unsolvable bitch, because / can mean 2 things): http://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3205691/Math+ain+t+even+mad/ Basically an FJ post, where two calculators solve the equation differently, the one getting the answer to be 9, in this case is correct, because these don't work with /, but instead work with ÷, in which case the answer will definitely be 9.[/quote]

[quote=IceCreamy]Dunno where the misconception that ÷ and / are different, because they mean exactly the same. And a fraction is the same as a division.[/quote]

[quote=Lugignaf]In reality, Fractions are not the same as division. 1/2*3 is not the same as (1/2)*3 The latter implies One Half times three, while the former implies, One divided by the quantity of three and two. The answers are completely different.[/quote]