Nobody Can Figure Out The Answer to This Math Problem

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Next time you have a math assignment, you may not want to take to the internet to get it figured out because if it’s one thing we know, it’s that people cannot be trusted to do math.

its just a fact that some people are terrible at math

Once again, Nobody Can Figure Out The Answer to This Math Problem and it has the whole internet divided.

The math problem is:

do you know how to figure out this viral math problem?

6/2 (1 + 2) = ?

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Some are quick to jump in saying you need to go in the order of PEMDAS (Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally) like many of us were taught in grade school.

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Others, disagree and say it’s acronyms BODMAS to follow.

Either way, most people are coming up with the answers 0, 1, 3, or 6 which are presumably wrong.

you might need a calculator to solve this viral math problem

Why?

Because the answer is actually 9.

Here is an overly complicated breakdown of the equation:

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But to dumb it down for those (like me) that have math as their weakest subject, here is a YouTube video going over the equation:

So yeah, technically the answer is 9 but can also be 1? I am more confused now than when I started.

So, which is it? What is your answer?!

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131 Comments

  1. 6÷2(1+2)=2 1is positive so is2 +×+=- that will be 1 and 6÷2=3 now +1+3=2

  2. bruh i got 9 first try. that problems not that hard.

  3. 6/2 = 3 (1+2) = 3 3*3 = 9
    The answer is 9

    1. @Gladys Maria Olivares, no use order of operations pemdas
      Parentheses
      Exponents
      Multiplication
      Division
      Addition
      Subtraction
      The multiplication and division are interchangeable depending on which comes first when you read the equation left to right the same goes for addition and subtraction
      6/2(1+2)
      Do parenthesis first
      6/2(3)
      Then division
      6/2=3
      3/3
      Answer is 1

    1. @Julia,
      6/2(2+1)
      (1+2)=3
      6/2=3
      3*3=9
      That’s how I came up with the answer

    2. Julia But it’s not 3/3 it’s 3(3) which is 9

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