It’s a math joke (“”“joke”“”) about misunderstanding the intent behind written problems, as poorly-written problems can be interpreted in multiple ways, but well-written problems are (almost) always correctly interpreted by reasonably math literate folks. The fact the you arrived at two different solutions means that you correctly interpreted the intent behind both problems.
It’s a math joke (“”“joke”“”) about misunderstanding the intent behind written problems, as poorly-written problems can be interpreted in multiple ways, but well-written problems are (almost) always correctly interpreted by reasonably math literate folks. The fact the you arrived at two different solutions means that you correctly interpreted the intent behind both problems.
Oh I get it. It’s
6 / 2(1 + 2)
disambiguatedThe answer is 1 btw
The person who wrote this did this to purposefully confuse people and no one should even touch this. The way it’s written is wrong