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  # 48/2(9+3) -- The answer is 2
  
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   Voting Style: Open Point System: 7 Point Started: 3/5/2012 Category: Miscellaneous Updated: 5 years ago Status: Post Voting Period Viewed: 10,607 times Debate No: 21758
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  Posted by Shadowguynick 2 years ago
  This is actually an extremely easy mistake to correct. In math there is a concept known as a monomial. Its essentially this: Any number seperates by a + or - is a monomial. Notice it doesn't say / or *. So when doing the problem you CAN use the distributive property, but for the monomial. So yoou would distribute 48/2 to 9, then distribute it to three. Add the two and you get 288. Should look like this:
  48/2(9+3)
  (48/2)*9)+(48/2)*3)
  216+72
  288
  Posted by wiploc 5 years ago
  : Posted by drafterman
  : Plug =48/2*(9+3) into excel. Tell me what you get.
  
  288
  Posted by THEBOMB 5 years ago
  Posted by Oldfrith 5 years ago
  You're both wrong. Calculator comes up with 36.
  Posted by drafterman 5 years ago
  Plug =48/2*(9+3) into excel. Tell me what you get.
  Posted by healthylight 5 years ago
  @drafterman and everybody else
  
  Thanks for the feedback.
  Posted by drafterman 5 years ago
  Healthy. The two notations are NOT the same. When you use / you can't assume everything to the right is the denominator. That's why we have order of operations. Con showed this already.
  Posted by wiploc 5 years ago
  Healthy,
  
  You undertook to prove that _the_ answer is 2, but all you showed is that 2 would be _an_ answer if we were free to pick any order of calculation we wanted.
  
  I'm reminded of a joke:
  A guy staying at Canadian hotel resident calls down to the front desk.
  "Excuse me, the hot water faucet has a C on it, for 'Cold."
  "I'm sorry, but that C is for 'caliente,' which means 'hot.'"
  "Oh, yeah? Well, that's just not true. The cold water faucet also has a C on it."
  "That one stands for 'cold.' This is a bilingual hotel in a bilingual country."
  Posted by healthylight 5 years ago
  @drafterman
  
  Let me defend myself here.
  
  48/2*(9+3)
  
  In the equation above, the slash sign is used to make a fraction. Therefore, 2*(9+3) is treated as a denominator, and 48 as a numerator, and they are treated separately.
  
  To make this more clear, the equation is
  
  48
  --------
  2*(9+3)
  
  =
  48
  --------
  2*(12)
  
  =
  
  48
  ---------
  24
  
  = 2
  
  I apologize for continuing the debate in the comments section, but I needed a chance to clarify myself.
  Posted by chasinheffers 5 years ago
  You have to admit he's fun, but quite the loose cannon. I just finished a debate with him on the Boston Tea Party, where he tried to say the Iroquois League and the Council of Fifty were somehow related, and I was stumped to be honest. Had I missed something? Turns out, no. No such relationship at all.
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  The Instigator
  Pro (for)
  Losing
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  The Contender
  Con (against)
  Winning
  32 Points
  
  # 48/2(9+3) -- The answer is 2
  
  Do you like this debate?NoYes+1
  
  Post Voting Period
  The voting period for this debate has ended.
  after 8 votes the winner is...
  surpy
   Voting Style: Open Point System: 7 Point Started: 3/5/2012 Category: Miscellaneous Updated: 5 years ago Status: Post Voting Period Viewed: 10,607 times Debate No: 21758
  Debate Rounds (3)
  
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  Posted by Shadowguynick 2 years ago
  This is actually an extremely easy mistake to correct. In math there is a concept known as a monomial. Its essentially this: Any number seperates by a + or - is a monomial. Notice it doesn't say / or *. So when doing the problem you CAN use the distributive property, but for the monomial. So yoou would distribute 48/2 to 9, then distribute it to three. Add the two and you get 288. Should look like this:
  48/2(9+3)
  (48/2)*9)+(48/2)*3)
  216+72
  288
  Posted by wiploc 5 years ago
  : Posted by drafterman
  : Plug =48/2*(9+3) into excel. Tell me what you get.
  
  288
  Posted by THEBOMB 5 years ago
  Posted by Oldfrith 5 years ago
  You're both wrong. Calculator comes up with 36.
  Posted by drafterman 5 years ago
  Plug =48/2*(9+3) into excel. Tell me what you get.
  Posted by healthylight 5 years ago
  @drafterman and everybody else
  
  Thanks for the feedback.
  Posted by drafterman 5 years ago
  Healthy. The two notations are NOT the same. When you use / you can't assume everything to the right is the denominator. That's why we have order of operations. Con showed this already.
  Posted by wiploc 5 years ago
  Healthy,
  
  You undertook to prove that _the_ answer is 2, but all you showed is that 2 would be _an_ answer if we were free to pick any order of calculation we wanted.
  
  I'm reminded of a joke:
  A guy staying at Canadian hotel resident calls down to the front desk.
  "Excuse me, the hot water faucet has a C on it, for 'Cold."
  "I'm sorry, but that C is for 'caliente,' which means 'hot.'"
  "Oh, yeah? Well, that's just not true. The cold water faucet also has a C on it."
  "That one stands for 'cold.' This is a bilingual hotel in a bilingual country."
  Posted by healthylight 5 years ago
  @drafterman
  
  Let me defend myself here.
  
  48/2*(9+3)
  
  In the equation above, the slash sign is used to make a fraction. Therefore, 2*(9+3) is treated as a denominator, and 48 as a numerator, and they are treated separately.
  
  To make this more clear, the equation is
  
  48
  --------
  2*(9+3)
  
  =
  48
  --------
  2*(12)
  
  =
  
  48
  ---------
  24
  
  = 2
  
  I apologize for continuing the debate in the comments section, but I needed a chance to clarify myself.
  Posted by chasinheffers 5 years ago
  You have to admit he's fun, but quite the loose cannon. I just finished a debate with him on the Boston Tea Party, where he tried to say the Iroquois League and the Council of Fifty were somehow related, and I was stumped to be honest. Had I missed something? Turns out, no. No such relationship at all.
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