Anyone up for solving this puzzle?

[summeriscomingsoon]

A gold star for a correct answer



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I was vaccinated this morning so just lying in bed with a slight headache responding to the thread.

Very distracting and a bit of fun

To the posters who say BIDMAS wasn't a "thing" when they were at school... out of interest how old are you?

I think I've discussed this on MN before, but it seems it became popular in the 80s/90s. The principles it encapsulates have remained unchanged in normal algebraic convention for what must be centuries, but the use of BIDMAS in the classroom as a teaching tool is more recent. (I only remember coming across it in the 90s when I became a secondary school maths teacher).

11

28

2+1+(1x7)

28

14 if we're still on the OP

14 if we're still on the OP

20

70 - haven’t checked answer

I've got it now (10) although my first thought was 50, having spotted the singular bananas but not the clock or the cookie differences . And I really didn't know about the multiplication first rule; I'm sure when I was at school we only did this if there were brackets in place .

10

11

I've changed my mind.
It's 10.

15

60

50

50

@Bythehairywartsonmywitchychin

OMG! There’s some fun spongers on here. It’s a bit of fun, there’s no need for over analysing the cost of a clock and the chocolate chips on a cookie!

Or, you're not getting my kind of SOH.

(Watches aren't really cheaper at 1am)

Oh, just seen the right answer. Oops.

I also remember working out sums/products simply from left to right.

www.teachwire.net/news/why-its-time-for-maths-teachers-to-bin-bodmas

It's 25

Ah, no I change my 14 to 11

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