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A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months
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this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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So order of operations is hard?
The issue normally with these "trick" questions is the ambiguous nature of that division sign (not so much a problem here) or people not knowing to just go left to right when all operators are of the same priority. A common mistake is to think division is prioritised above multiplication, when it actually has the same priority. Someone should have included some parenthesis in PEDMAS aka. PE(DM)(AS) 😄
There's no "trick" - it's a straight-out test of Maths knowledge.
Nothing ambiguous about it. The Term of the left divided by the Term on the right.
It's not a mistake. You can do them in any order you want.
Which means you can do them in any order
"A common mistake is to think division is prioritised above multiplication"
That is what I said. I said it's a mistake to think one of them has a precedence over the other. You're arguing the same point I'm making?
And I said it's not a mistake. You still get the right answer.
No, I'm telling you that prioritising either isn't a mistake. Mistakes give wrong answers. Prioritising either doesn't give wrong answers.