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 July 1st, 2017, 10:21 AM #11 Newbie   Joined: Jun 2017 From: North Texas Posts: 19 Thanks: 1 I think this had been fully examined, thanks guys, I shall prepare more newbie questions to check your knowledge of course. =p Just jiving at the UK thing, I've heard people here call it BODMAS too.
July 1st, 2017, 01:18 PM   #12
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 Originally Posted by MATHEMATICIAN $\displaystyle \frac{A+B+C+D}{E+F+G+H}\neq \frac{A}{E}+\frac{B}{F}+\frac{C}{G}+\frac{D}{H}$
In general you are absolutely correct of course but there are enough variables here to create a few exceptions to the rule. For example ,

$\frac{1 \ + \ 1 \ + \ 1 \ + \ 5 }{1 + (-2) + 1 + 2} = \frac{1}{1} + \frac{1}{-2} + \frac{1}{1} + \frac{5}{2}$

You can replace $5$ by any number you wish and it still holds true. LOL there are an infinite number of cases where it works ... but that is not enough.

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 July 2nd, 2017, 04:55 AM #13 Math Team   Joined: Jan 2015 From: Alabama Posts: 3,171 Thanks: 869 "PEDMAS" can be remembered by the mnemonic "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally". Is there a mnemonic for "BODMAS"?
July 2nd, 2017, 05:05 AM   #14
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 Originally Posted by Country Boy Is there a mnemonic for "BODMAS"?
"Brother Of My Dear Aunt Sally".

 July 2nd, 2017, 11:18 AM #15 Math Team     Joined: Jul 2011 From: North America, 42nd parallel Posts: 3,372 Thanks: 233 Also worth mentioning is that multiplication and division must be done in the order that they occur from left to right. For example if you encounter 12÷3x2 the correct answer is 8
 July 3rd, 2017, 10:29 AM #16 Senior Member   Joined: Jan 2014 From: The backwoods of Northern Ontario Posts: 371 Thanks: 68 When I was a math teacher, I provided the following order of operations: 1. Parentheses 2. Exponents 3. Multiplication/division 4. Addition/subtraction 5. Line division Notes: 1. Multiplication and division are equal in order. So is addition and subtraction. Whichever comes first, you do first. 2. "Line division" refers to a line drawn between the elements of an expression (as in the the second post).
July 3rd, 2017, 07:30 PM   #17
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 Originally Posted by Timios When I was a math teacher, I provided the following order of operations: 1. Parentheses 2. Exponents 3. Multiplication/division 4. Addition/subtraction 5. Line division Notes: 1. Multiplication and division are equal in order. So is addition and subtraction. Whichever comes first, you do first. 2. "Line division" refers to a line drawn between the elements of an expression (as in the the second post).
Note number 2 is good I can see that causing confusion.

 July 9th, 2017, 11:47 AM #18 Senior Member   Joined: Jan 2014 From: The backwoods of Northern Ontario Posts: 371 Thanks: 68 Would it still cause confusion if examples were given? If so, please give an example of a possible confusion. Last edited by Timios; July 9th, 2017 at 11:50 AM.
July 9th, 2017, 08:50 PM   #19
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 Originally Posted by Country Boy "PEDMAS" can be remembered by the mnemonic "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally". Is there a mnemonic for "BODMAS"?
It's PEMDAS, not PEDMAS.

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