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Post by Stratmangler on Dec 12, 2017 20:06:32 GMT
88
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Post by Slinger on Dec 12, 2017 20:07:46 GMT
2 + 3 + 3 x (6+5) = 88 is what I'm seeing
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Post by John on Dec 12, 2017 20:07:56 GMT
that was my answer to
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Post by Stratmangler on Dec 12, 2017 20:09:13 GMT
2 + 3 + 3 x (6+5) = 88 is what I'm seeing So did I. |
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Post by pinkie on Dec 12, 2017 20:15:25 GMT
Source You missed your pedmas. 11 is the symbol at the end. You don't need the brackets but 5+6 is 11 The hexagon plus Pentagon plus square was 15 But pedmas says you multiply 3 bananas by 11 before you add the sum of that to another 3 for bananas and 2 for the ckock It is {11x3) +3+2=38 Source |
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Post by Stratmangler on Dec 12, 2017 20:20:00 GMT
Source You missed your pedmas. 11 is the symbol at the end. You don't need the brackets but 5+6 is 11 The hexagon plus Pentagon plus square was 15 But pedmas says you multiply 3 bananas by 11 before you add the sum of that to another 3 for bananas and 2 for the ckock It is {11x3) +3+2=38 SourceDo you mean pemdas? You also need to look a lot more closely at the representations. |
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Post by pinkie on Dec 12, 2017 20:27:09 GMT
I see my link does
I learned it as pedmas. If you reverse the d & me or a&s you get the same result
The boy wonder, who got his C for maths À level a bit more recently than me calls it BIDMAS
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Post by Stratmangler on Dec 12, 2017 20:35:17 GMT
And the representations?
Bottom row - clock shows 2
There are 3 bananas in the bunches, not 4 as in the earlier ones
The shapes show 11 sides
2+3+3x11=88
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Post by pinkie on Dec 12, 2017 20:47:00 GMT
You have the right symbols but you are not applying pedmas
Pedmas says "do all the multiply and divides before the add and subtracts"
So
Multiply 11 by 3 gives 33
Add 3 gives 36
Add 2 gives 38
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2017 20:57:26 GMT
I see my link does I learned it as pedmas. If you reverse the d & me or a&s you get the same result The boy wonder, who got his C for maths À level a bit more recently than me calls it BIDMAS I always knew it as BODMAS B - Brackets first O - Orders (i.e. Powers and Square Roots, etc.) DM - Division and Multiplication (left-to-right) AS - Addition and Subtraction (left-to-right) |
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Post by Stratmangler on Dec 12, 2017 20:57:39 GMT
I'd watch if I were you, Richard.
If HMRC find you doing dodgy accountancy maths like that they'll be doing a blanket audit on all of your clients.
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Post by MartinT on Dec 12, 2017 21:44:50 GMT
Multiply takes priority over Add.
2 + 3 + (3 x 11)
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Post by Stratmangler on Dec 12, 2017 21:59:58 GMT
There's no precedent set in the earlier examples.
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Post by MartinT on Dec 12, 2017 22:03:25 GMT
There's only one multiply in the whole puzzle!
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Post by Stratmangler on Dec 12, 2017 22:08:04 GMT
There's not a hint of clever bollocks manipulation of the data in the examples.
If there was then it's a different matter.
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Post by ChrisB on Dec 12, 2017 23:47:25 GMT
Sorry chaps, but all of the above is bollocks.
Richard nearly had it when he said the answer is in the question (or at least, that's how I remember what he said).
There are, in fact, two answers to the question.
Look at the question again.
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Post by Stratmangler on Dec 13, 2017 0:03:29 GMT
Sorry chaps, but all of the above is bollocks. Richard nearly had it when he said the answer is in the question (or at least, that's how I remember what he said). There are, in fact, two answers to the question. Look at the question again. If the answer is in the question, and don't forget that the only question is at the end of the precedent setting examples, then the answer is 88. Forget all the clever overeducated shithead nonsense. That's bogus overeducated shithead nonsense. Unless, of course, you can persuade me differently. |
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Post by ChrisB on Dec 13, 2017 0:08:02 GMT
I should correct myself.
There are two possible answers to the question.
Either can be correct and neither is a number.
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Post by Stratmangler on Dec 13, 2017 0:14:31 GMT
I remember being told at school that there was an A level question on a maths paper one previous year.
1+1 =?
Something like 80% of the replies were wrong.
Some said it was 3, because they didn't think that such a simple question would have a straightforward answer, so the question must be in binary.
I can't remember any of the other ideas pursued - school was a very long time ago.
1+1=2 was the answer the examiners expected to see.
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Post by Stratmangler on Dec 13, 2017 0:16:01 GMT
I should correct myself. There are two possible answers to the question. Either can be correct and neither is a number. Go on then ...... |
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