Ian
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LOL you learned this in third year juniors.
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PhilC
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40+40x0+1 =
0(40+40) + 1 = 1
(0 x 40) + 40 + 1 = 41
Depends which way you structure it...
(No shit eh?)
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John
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It doesn't depend. Only one is correct.
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Generation
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Wow, doyle has managed to et you all going :laugh:
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Jake
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agreed. youve all been trolled. hard
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Hammer
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quote:
Originally posted by Generation
Wow, doyle has managed to et you all going :laugh:
He's copy/pasted, as he always does, popular threads from other forums.
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Paul_J
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quote:
Originally posted by PhilC
40+40x0+1 =
0(40+40) + 1 = 1
(0 x 40) + 40 + 1 = 41
Depends which way you structure it...
(No shit eh?)
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smcGSI16V
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I dont give a shit what anybody says.
When I was a lad being taught maths, if I saw that sum as it is my answer would be
1.
[Edited on 11-11-2011 by smcGSI16V]
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Ian
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You are actually taught to go left to right without exception prior to key stage 2.
BODMAS or whatever they're calling it these days is higher grade junior and only mandatory at key stage 3.
So you're right - you were taught that the answer is 1 very early on, but you would later have learned the correct way.
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LeeM
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the answer is 41, there is only one answer. maths rules apply whether you know them or not
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Hammer
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I was NEVER taught the answer to that was 1. Nor should I have been.
At the stage we read left to right it was simple addition. Unless you went to a spastic school learning the notation before you started learning how to actually work out the sums was/is common practice.
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Shell
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It's all coming back to me how much I hated maths.
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LeeM
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i like maths, which is good seeing as my degree is more than half maths
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JonnyJ
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Yeah, all you spastics who went to spastic school. LOL at you all. How do you get through life without knowing this incredibly important information? I use BODMAS every fucking day in regular life, unbelievable how you are all still alive really if you dont know this.
Spastics.
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Russ
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i use BODMAS every day too. When i am sitting at my desk at work, eating chocolate, surfing the web
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Hammer
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quote:
Originally posted by JonnyJ
Yeah, all you spastics who went to spastic school. LOL at you all. How do you get through life without knowing this incredibly important information? I use BODMAS every fucking day in regular life, unbelievable how you are all still alive really if you dont know this.
Spastics.
I don't have a fucking clue what BODMAS is or stands for nor would anyone need to.
Brackets, multiplication and division, addition and subtraction. Not that hard, is it?
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JonnyJ
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Dont need to know it in my life mate. I take pretty photos and draw pictures.
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Jamescorsa97
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BODMAS.
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smcGSI16V
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I dont think I was ever taught this bodmas shit.
Bearing in mind I left school in 95. It must have been post that.
So I still stand by my answer.
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smcGSI16V
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the question being asked is,
40+40x0+1
not
40+(40x0)+1
so the answer is 1.
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John
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It's been correct for a lot longer than 16 years.
Not sure why anyone still argues when it's incorrect.
As was said above, because you don't know how to do it correctly doesn't mean that you can just make it up your way.
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Dave
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Isn't it annoying when people vehemently stick to their opinions, even after they've been proved wrong on more than one occasion by people with more knowledge of the subject?
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Jules S
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I'm 99% certain I wasn't taught BODMAS at school.
My missus did 'A' level (stats) and she hasn't heard of it either
I think the first time I came across it was in integration and differentiation at college, back then I think you started learning that shiz if you did a pure maths'A' level 
To me it's just about the accepted format/approach and it's been altered over time.
Hence I got 1 as the answer 
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chloe16v
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41
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LeeM
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quote:
Originally posted by smcGSI16V
the question being asked is,
40+40x0+1
not
40+(40x0)+1
so the answer is 1.
theres no brackets because it doesnt need them. you'd only need to add brackets to make the answer 1.
(40+40)x0+1=1
this is fact, im doing maths at degree level for my engineering degree. not that this is even gcse level tbh. my dads 52 and learned bodmas at school
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