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[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (37 children)

Pemdas, parenthesis first, for a total of 3. Then multiplication, 15, then addition. 17. What's hard about this?

[–] AquaTofana@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I fucking suck at math and totally just re-proved it to myself with this problem lmao.

It didn't make sense to me to multiply the 3 & the 5 with zero consideration for the "2". I have ALWAYS struggled with the steps to solve these types of equations.

So the answer I got was 21. Some of us are just bad with numbers, I s'pose.

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 0 points 3 days ago

It didn’t make sense to me to multiply the 3 & the 5 with zero consideration for the “2”

That's what the order of operations rules say to do. 2 doesn't come into it until you get down to the Addition step.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you don't remember pemdas, you can use the longer P.lease E.xcuse M.y D.ear A.unt S.ally.

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