Anyone up for solving this puzzle?

[summeriscomingsoon]

A gold star for a correct answer



70

15

No no no

50

2oclock _+ 1 banana + 1banana x 7 chips

BODMAS
Do the multiplication before the addition

2+ 1+7

=10

Look at the last line close up

Look for differences

And use BOD/BID MAS

54?

@watingroom2

2oclock _+ 1 banana + 1banana x 7 chips

BODMAS
Do the multiplication before the addition

2+ 1+7

=10

Correct!

I can see two possibilities:

One is that Scottish exam papers always used brackets. At least when I was sitting Standard Grade and Higher Maths in 1999 and 2000. So they didn’t specifically teach BODMAS at school because there was no need, because you just looked for the brackets and did them first. Evidence for this theory is that I got a 1 in Standard Grade Maths (for GCSE sitters, a 1 was the highest possible mark) and an A at Higher and have never come across this rule before. Also that one maths teacher who took my class for two years was so shit that a group of parents complained to the school - he used to spend classes teaching the boys how to play golf using a metre stick, and mainly ignored the girls.

The other is that I’ve just forgotten the rule, but I knew it then. Which is possible but unlikely, because it’s a simple rule with an acronym. I’ve forgotten stuff about how to calculate multiples of indices, how to calculate arcs, and how to use sine and cosine etc, but I remember that they exist and that once I could do them, not forgotten them completely.

35

10

50

@Missdotty

I get 28, and am totally confused by the change from bodmas to bidmas

I'd rather call it bedmas. Exponentials rather than indices or order.... it means do things like squares and cubes etc before the multiplications and divisions.

70

@summeriscomingsoon

Just popping back to give 10 stars for those who used BODMAS and got 10 as the answer

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I did use bodmas (love how my phone changed that to vodkas). Just didn’t have glasses on & missed the chips & clock thingy. 😛

11

70

I think that it's 10 as there are 6 chocolate chips in the final cookie so 6x1+1+3=10

10. It' not that hard...

I never learnt BODMAS or any variant of it, so for me the answer to that sum is 28. To arrive at the answer 10, the sum would have to be written the other way round.

12

11

10

@Nith

I never learnt BODMAS or any variant of it, so for me the answer to that sum is 28. To arrive at the answer 10, the sum would have to be written the other way round.

There is no “other way round” in calculations. You don’t work from left to right, or right to left, in maths.

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