Big Bad Bob Posted 3 September, 2013 Share Posted 3 September, 2013 This is going to rival Bearsy's new novel, esp when the maths teachers get involved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwichsaint Posted 3 September, 2013 Share Posted 3 September, 2013 I'll go first BIDMAS = 9 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 3 September, 2013 Share Posted 3 September, 2013 Imprecise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 3 September, 2013 Share Posted 3 September, 2013 Is it 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cascadia Saint Posted 3 September, 2013 Share Posted 3 September, 2013 1. Probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biondani Posted 4 September, 2013 Share Posted 4 September, 2013 1. 6 / 2(3) ie 6 / 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaford Saint Posted 4 September, 2013 Share Posted 4 September, 2013 You work out what's inside the brackets first, I think...so 1+2=3 6/3=3. So 3x3=9 But it was 45 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 Ill go for 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecuk268 Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 Brackets first so 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjsaint Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 I'm going number one as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 Nope. Sorry. Still haven't been able to find a 4 year old to answer this for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint-Reece Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 6/2(1+2)... 6/2(3)... 3(3).. so i'm going for 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint-Reece Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 That is by using BIDMAS btw ^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KelvinsRightGlove Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 Nope. Sorry. Still haven't been able to find a 4 year old to answer this for me FFS year 4 & 4 year old are completely different things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 5 September, 2013 Author Share Posted 5 September, 2013 Nope. Sorry. Still haven't been able to find a 4 year old to answer this for me Year 4 is 8-9 year olds. And the answer is 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 Year 4 is 8-9 year olds. And the answer is 9[/QUOTE] why ? looks like it should be 1 to me but perhaps this is a new system used to calculate state benefits or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 5 September, 2013 Author Share Posted 5 September, 2013 Year 4 is 8-9 year olds. And the answer is 9 why ? looks like it should be 1 to me but perhaps this is a new system used to calculate state benefits or something like that. 6/2(1+2) is the same as 6/2*(1+2) So, according to BODMAS/BIDMAS/PEMDAS, do the brackets/parentheses first :- 6/2*3 In BODMAS/BIDMAS/PEMDAS Division and Multiplication have the same precedence so you work from left to right, in plain English this becomes 6 divided by 2 multiplied by 3 which is 9!! Seemples Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 Big bad is right Brackets Powers Multiply and divide Plus and minus Multiply and divide rank equally therefore you go left to right Now I know why I quit maths Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 Beaten to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 Lol I have a degree in electrical engineering which is pretty much pure maths Major fail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 Using BODMAS I get 9 (the correct answer), worryingly my calculator gives 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 372 remainder 4 give or take the odd 5 here or there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 If 9 is right then I didn't widdle 10 school years of maths up the wall afterall, and it stayed in for another 33 years!!! if it's wrong then loading the chalk holder of the roller board in maths with those paper twist fun snaps so that they all went off when Mr Robinson pulled the board down showed that my time was far better spent in physics!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 So you start school at 5 years old, JBS did 10 years of school meaning he left at 15 years old (drop out!) and it is 33 years later so.... JBS is 48 or have I got the maths wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 5 September, 2013 Author Share Posted 5 September, 2013 So you start school at 5 years old, JBS did 10 years of school meaning he left at 15 years old (drop out!) and it is 33 years later so.... JBS is 48 or have I got the maths wrong? No, you start school when you're 4 unless your birthday happens to be in the first couple of days of September and then you'll probably be 5. You can leave school at 15 too, if you're birthday's in July or August. Either way JBS' memory is failing him, however he is more likely to be John Grandad Saint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 Yeah but from what you are saying, unless his birthday is early September, he dropped out when he was 14. That is worse than bear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 Using BODMAS I get 9 (the correct answer), worryingly my calculator gives 1. Yes, it's imprecise. In such circumstances I would always put extra brackets just to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 hi i've just noticed this thread. I calculate the answer is 9, i done this by applying DUMAS. What is everyone else get? edit - i think it is imprecise tho i would put extra brackets, you is never have enough brackets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 5 September, 2013 Share Posted 5 September, 2013 So you start school at 5 years old, JBS did 10 years of school meaning he left at 15 years old (drop out!) and it is 33 years later so.... JBS is 48 or have I got the maths wrong? Excellent work Tokyo, and BBB highlighted an error in my own workings out. But then having had a birthday in the last month I forgot to add a year, in the days of black & white you started school at 5 and I left at 15 when my CSEs were finished in June and as my birthday is in August I became the last of the kids with a push bike when my mates all had Mopeds Went to college............ Christ knows why as I dropped out of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwichsaint Posted 6 September, 2013 Share Posted 6 September, 2013 I'll go first BIDMAS = 9 ? Chuffed with that, I didn't do any maths beyond O Level in 1976, just know BIDMAS from a bit of primary school TA-ing 15 years ago, not that I particularly understand it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 6 September, 2013 Share Posted 6 September, 2013 Never heard of BIDMAS - just worked it out as I would have done 50 years ago and got.......... 9! Yay, go me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcjwills Posted 6 September, 2013 Share Posted 6 September, 2013 Made it 9 via Bidmas and the calculator on the samsung phone also made it 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 7 September, 2013 Share Posted 7 September, 2013 What the **** is Dumas? I made is 9 by just working out the outside stuff times the inside stuff. Are teachers on strike so much these days people don't get that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 7 September, 2013 Share Posted 7 September, 2013 What the **** is Dumas? I made is 9 by just working out the outside stuff times the inside stuff. Are teachers on strike so much these days people don't get that? It should be 'dumbass', unless you are talking about the great French writers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 7 September, 2013 Share Posted 7 September, 2013 Bit xenophobic whitey, sure some French are dumbasses but surely not all of them and not all their writers? They are not actually writing in English and doing it wrongly, that's their language dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 7 September, 2013 Share Posted 7 September, 2013 Bit xenophobic whitey, sure some French are dumbasses but surely not all of them and not all their writers? They are not actually writing in English and doing it wrongly, that's their language dude. Au contraire, mon ami. I was saying that the Dumas father and son were great literary proponents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 7 September, 2013 Share Posted 7 September, 2013 Which dumbass father and son? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 7 September, 2013 Share Posted 7 September, 2013 Alexander Dumas, pére et fils. The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and much more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 9 September, 2013 Share Posted 9 September, 2013 Definitely 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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