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I can get how they find 16, but what about 15-14 and 13 for 41%
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u/Trectears Aug 31 '20
I guess people chose 13 since it was the closest to the actual answer
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u/CandleJackHammer Aug 31 '20
But it's all even numbers, it's impossible to get odd answers.
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u/peetalonso Aug 31 '20
It's also a Twitter poll so not terribly unreasonable to think 26% actually got 13
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No the real question is who the fuck decided to bring in odd numbers?
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You’re right. The person who create this question is the person to blame
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u/JayPlenty24 Aug 31 '20
People who chose 13 probably on purpose because it was the worst answer, when 10 wasn’t an option.
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u/MasterSword18 Aug 31 '20
Right? Honestly people’s inability to do basic math scares me sometimes
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u/russelcrowe Aug 31 '20
Yea, but order of operations goes against the basic left-to-right structure of reading in English; If the average person rarely does basic math then it's reasonable to see why PEMDAS would be knowledge dumped and people would do the equation from left to right as they read it. At first glance it seems entirely logical to them. It does kind of make sense as to why people would make that mistake.
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u/gamerrfm9 Aug 31 '20 edited Aug 31 '20
1x2=2 so 2+2=1 (x is a tilted +, indicating a “rotation” of the equation)
—>1x4=14 (x can also indicate a “crossing”/intersection, where to things meet, according to the law of appending.)
Simple.
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PEMDAS
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u/OziraKhan95 Sep 01 '20
I dont know if i was taught in a backward British School but we were taught BIDMAS. Brackets, Indicies, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.
What would P and E stand for?
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u/the_spotless_mind Aug 31 '20
Never mind, the question is for Flat Earthers...
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Yeah they were the 26% that chose 13
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u/NarwhalsAreGreat Aug 31 '20
I mean people might have chose 13 because it’s closest to the actual answer
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u/Black_ink_Soul_stink
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Geez I’ve been out of school so long that I legit didn’t understand how he got the 10 for a solid minute and a half. God I’m getting stupid.
Edit: thank you so much for the reward and all the karma!
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u/missunicorn279 Plays MineCraft and not FortNite Aug 31 '20
PEMDAS, otherwise known as order of operations, you have to do 2•4 first to get 8, then do 8+2 to get 10
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u/thissecretennui Aug 31 '20
PEMDAS? Interesting. We were taught BODMAS at my school.
Brackets, Orders, Division/Multiplication, Addition/Subtraction.
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u/Nouuuuuuuuh Aug 31 '20 edited Aug 31 '20
BEDMAS is for fools. I use my own order of operations
Edit: I feel like I've been lied to these past 8ish years. Y'all be telling me different orders of operations. I don't know who to believe anymore
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What’s BEDMAS? At school we learned PEMDAS
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u/LastLivingProphet Aug 31 '20
Same thing, just change "parentheses" to "brackets"
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u/RickTheGrate memer Aug 31 '20
we learnt BODMAS, and it was easier because bodmas means villain/bad guy in our language
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u/Nouuuuuuuuh Aug 31 '20
I was tought Bedmas
Brackets Exponents Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction.
Hmmm
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u/mohaee Aug 31 '20
BODMAS gang here
Brackets Of Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction
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u/Savage_X186 Dark Mode Elitist Aug 31 '20
Ooh you guys called it BEDMAS.. in my country it is called BODMAS.
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Aug 31 '20 edited Sep 02 '20
Mafs:
2+2x4
2+(2x4)
(2x4)+2 [for the sake of showing that parentheses and multiplication comes first]
8+2
8+2=10
(Simpler terms for those who need clearification)
Btw, the meme says the answer is 10, so those of you telling me im wrong can stop or you can keep your opinion to yourself, please and thank you :<
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But if someone wanted to get to 16 by adding 2 and 2 and then multiplying that answer by 4, how else should they phrase that question?
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u/Jaymoney0 Aug 31 '20
How in the fuck did 26% get 13
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u/NarwhalsAreGreat Aug 31 '20
People probably chose that because it’s closest to the actual answer
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u/darkmarineblue Aug 31 '20
The old closest number trick that would normally make you choose the wrong answer unless you were doing physics.
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u/succulentsandwitch Aug 31 '20 edited Aug 31 '20
Yo who tf is pem and why he always be das’n
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u/PhoReady Aug 31 '20
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
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u/SnowySupreme Aug 31 '20
I dont get how people memorize using that
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u/WyattClawson6 Big ol' bacon buttsack Aug 31 '20
Teachers that know how to be repetitive with their technique to engrave it into ur minds
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u/Hood-E69 Aug 31 '20
PEMDAS PEOPLE
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u/TheRedBanshee Aug 31 '20
I learned PEMDAS as “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” - for some reason it just looks odd as an acronym to me even though it’s the same darn thing.
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u/SantiagoGaming Pro Gamer Aug 31 '20
Always multiply/divide before adding/subtracting!
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Well since there is no equal sign at the end its just random people choosing random numbers.
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u/a_fadora_trickster Identifies as a Cybertruck Aug 31 '20
i mean i get how someone might get 8 instead of ten, but no matter how hard i tried i can't for the life of me see how you get 13 out of these numbers
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u/0x4576616e Aug 31 '20
The scary part about this is that the right answer isn’t even an option
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u/hitman8100 Aug 31 '20
They do that on purpose. People calling it out for being incorrect lead to higher levels of engagement.
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Didn't you guys learn pemdas in the fifth grade. Cuse I'm convinced that the person who made that pole and all of the people that voted are illiterate dropouts
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u/kay_cool Aug 31 '20
Me who got 1.03762920183 in my calculator: (visible confusion)
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u/bosozokulove Aug 31 '20
If you go by order of events the answer is 16, if you go by PEMDAS tge answer is 10.
Im my job we never use PEMDAS, so this had me confused for a good minute
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Im my job we never use PEMDAS
Wait...what?
PEMDAS isn't just some optional method you can choose whether or not to use.
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u/JDKett Aug 31 '20 edited Aug 31 '20
Pemdas = Please End My Damn Ass Shit-ass-life
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u/CanYouCantToday Sep 01 '20
Order of Operations fuckwad. First it’s 2 times 4 then you do that plus 2 and you get 10 because 8 plus 2 is 10
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u/melon_musk2 Identifies as a Cybertruck Sep 11 '20
I’m genuinely confused how they got anything other than 16 or 10
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u/meggiememes Feb 25 '21
If you use BODMAS then multiplication comes first so 2x4=8 then you add the 2 making 10 therefore the person who made the poll is stupid and the people who put 14 are stupider
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u/Immediate_Dot_6041 Mar 27 '25
The correct answer is ten.
In sixth grade math class I got taught pemdas which is
Parentheses Exponents/radicals Multiply Divide Add Subtract
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u/Fartraiinerr Halal Mode Aug 31 '20
2+ (2x4) = 10
(2+2)(4) = 16
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u/Shreddyshred Aug 31 '20
No, you don't need brackets for this 2+2x4 is simply 10.
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u/madamessagain Aug 31 '20
The acronym for remembering the order of operations is PEMDAS, which stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition and Subtraction. A mnemonic device for remembering this acronym is Please E xcuse My Dear Aunt Sally.
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u/FudgeSuprme Aug 31 '20 edited Sep 01 '20
(Right, people are getting confused by this so I need to clear something up. As you can see, the sum in the meme is, 2+2×4, which is 10. But, as you can also see the most picked option is 16. The sum I have put here, is the sum that you need to do to get 16. I know the order of BODMAS, PEMDAS, BEDMAS, what ever you call it. I'm just showing what change you would need to make to make the sum get 16.)
(2+2)×4=16
In case you were wondering why the other sum isn't 16.
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Wrong! In order of operations, multiplication and division come before addition and subtraction. 2+(2×4)=2+8=10
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u/FudgeSuprme Aug 31 '20
I know. I'm not am idiot. I was showing what you would need to do in order to make it 16.
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u/AceOfEpix Aug 31 '20
My biggest worry is that some of them picked odd numbers for a problem only containing evens.
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u/LukkieTheMeme Professional Dumbass Aug 31 '20
Thus would be for (2 + 2) x 4 right?
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u/Racing_Messiah Aug 31 '20
Whoever made that quiz question or whatever the hell it is is stupid, if you use order of operations, the answer is 10, it would be 16 if you did it without order of operations.
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u/CantKnockUs Aug 31 '20
remember PEMDAS. Parenthesis, exponents, Multiplication and division, addition and subtraction
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u/VioletGardens-left Aug 31 '20
I've never been to school for so long and I still remember PEMDAS, Oh how fucking convenient.
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u/NathanCollier14 Aug 31 '20
I learned 2 things in school that actually apply to real life:
-PEMDAS
-The Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
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u/computer-machine Aug 31 '20
How the fuck can you manage to get an odd number summing and multiplying even numbers‽‽
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u/goddamnitguin Aug 31 '20
PLEASE EXCUSE MY DEAR AUNT SALLY, bro!! Did everyone just skip that day of 4th grade?
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u/KaazDov Aug 31 '20
the way it's written confuses people including myself. Since you don't usually just repeat the rules in your head and all that you just instinctively do the math from left to right like how you read.
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u/gaming-reaper Aug 31 '20
Holey shite I was confused I'm like it's 16 for like 5 min then I read the comments and I'm like I'm in highschool how do I not know this
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u/LordBroccoli69 Chungus Among Us Aug 31 '20
This is why I hate math, just put in some fucking parentheses.
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u/DerpiestBirdie Aug 31 '20
Fuck order of operations, fuck math, fuck thinking.
I’m gonna go dig a hole in a forest and sit in it.
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u/VelocityRapter644 Aug 31 '20
This would’ve worked if they put parentheses around 2+2, but NoOoOo...
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u/Raydar1987 Aug 31 '20
PEMDAS would be in effect. So, by using that method, it would be 2 x 4=8. Then, add 2 to get the final product of 10.
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u/jesassin123 Chungus Among Us Aug 31 '20
Math has left the chat