Simple math problem. And the answer is..?

[Ichinisan]

9 - 3 ÷ 1/3 + 1
(9 - 3 ÷ 1) / (3 + 1)
6 / 4
1.5

No.

 

[TallBill]

I got 1 without thought. Am I wrong?

 

[DrPizza]

I got 1 without thought. Am I wrong?

You are correct. Anyone claiming otherwise is applying PEMDAS overzealously, and likely grew up without any friends in grade school. 😛

 

[flexy]

1, and I SUCKED at math. This is first grader stuff.

 

[StrangerGuy]

You are correct. Anyone claiming otherwise is applying PEMDAS overzealously, and likely grew up without any friends in grade school. 😛

Hey, we morons with science and engineering degrees gotta fellate genises who thinks conjuring up mere arithmetic that is also completely irrelevant in the real world means they are good in actual math.

 

[Brian Stirling]

1, and I SUCKED at math. This is first grader stuff.

Not quite, you didn't get a formal education on order of operation until more like 5th grade...


Brian

 

[TallBill]

Not quite, you didn't get a formal education on order of operation until more like 5th grade...


Brian

Maybe you didn't learn it until 5th grade.

 

[biostud]

/thread

This!

(but apparently not.....)

 

[ControlD]

You are correct. Anyone claiming otherwise is applying PEMDAS overzealously, and likely grew up without any friends in grade school. 😛

Luckily for me I never even heard the term PEMDAS until I started hanging out at AT, so I had lots of friends.

(I also got 1 as the answer though).