Anyone up for solving this puzzle?

[summeriscomingsoon]

A gold star for a correct answer



@TimeIhadaNameChange

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No

Sorry, 11

@TimeIhadaNameChange

Sorry, 11

Still no

10, even

@TimeIhadaNameChange

10, even

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Meh I thought I'd used bodmas and I got 11. Ix7 choc chips, +1 banana + a mystery thing

Oh I see where I went wrong, the weird thing needs to be clearer

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This was great fun reading OP. Would be even funnier as the evening goes on and glasses get emptied. I'm watching.

And enjoying my star.

Bodmas!

I haven't rtft.

I'm changing my answer to 11. (I haven't got my glasses on.)

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49

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28

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I discussed BODMAS upthread without giving my answer, it's 10

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BODMAS

single bananas and clock pointing to 2 not 3 in the “question”

@Woodifer

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BODMAS

single bananas and clock pointing to 2 not 3 in the “question”

10. Look at the cookies more carefully

Yeah, it was the raisins on the biscuits and the hands of the clock that had me stuffed. I also didn't pick up on BODMAS, but then I have always thought that this was a bit wooly as a concept...

What the hell. I'm a social scientist and a qualitative researcher.

I also didn't pick up on BODMAS, but then I have always thought that this was a bit wooly as a concept...

It's a simple set of rules for unambiguous arithmetic which have existed for centuries. What's woolly about it?

It's a simple set of rules for unambiguous arithmetic which have existed for centuries. What's woolly about it

The bit where it does not say

Times 1 and 7, then add together 2 and 1 and add both totals together. Instead, you have to look at every single frigging equation and find the hidden trick.

But then, the only way I can do maths is to write it out in full sentences with proper words.

There's no 'trick', it's a really simple and consistent rule.

But then, the only way I can do maths is to write it out in full sentences with proper words.

Some people's brains really do work differently from others, I guess!

@ErrolTheDragon

There's no 'trick', it's a really simple and consistent rule.

But then, the only way I can do maths is to write it out in full sentences with proper words.

Some people's brains really do work differently from others, I guess!

To be fair, Errol, while there's no trick with the arithmetic operations, you do have to guess that the question-setter wants you to assume that a 7-chip cookie is worth 7 (7 what? pence? we're not given any units) because a ten-chip cookie is worth 10, and that a clock that says n o'clock is worth n - even though neither of those things seem to be true in the real world!

Just to complicate things further there is a move away from teaching BIDMAS because division and multiply have equal precedence, as does addition and subtraction- I teach it as order of operations.

Also how do we know that that bananas together are 2b and not b^2 - they are joined so that would imply a product rule?

Love a good maths argument.