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Originally Posted by Sezzy
When did order of operations change? There is no 'properly' about it...there is only one order of operations.
no argument there, but calculators don't always agree, hence the post a few pages back, with two different models of calc showing two different answers.
my point, probably poorly made, was that the order of operations built in to the calc, isn't always correct, once again look at the TI a few pages back.
this is similar to problems that my students have when playing with exponents and roots, the calc is not always correct.
at the end of the day it is a poorly written problem
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It is written poorly for a reason, as far as I can remember it is an equation designed to determine how a person will solve it. Baby boomers appear to solve 48/2(9*3)=x as x=2 and for gen Y it is x=288. the different methods taught at corresponding age levels proves that one generation was taught X and another Generation was taught Y.
The equation itself is very straightforward
depending on your education of these typical equations and it is the way it is written that causes such arguments.
There are exceptions to the rule of course. My own findings from asking my work mates show that of 28 employees, 17 are baby boomer, 2 are X, and 9 are gen Y. 11 of the 17 flunked school and could not answer the question, the other 6 answered 2. The X gen both flunked and could
not answer. Half the gen Y answered "who cares" with various expletives, the other half answered 288.
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Originally Posted by HSE2
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