04-05-2020, 10:15 PM
(04-05-2020, 10:00 PM)Jason_NC Wrote: 38
No, that's not it. Keep looking closer.
(04-05-2020, 10:03 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: 32
Ooh, that was my first answer when I saw this puzzle. Unfortunately, you're not seeing the details of the picture completely, yet.
(04-05-2020, 10:06 PM)McC Wrote: I was taught that, unless there are parentheses, an equation is read from left to right, period. To do it otherwise seems very contrived and to no good end, aside from confusing the hell out of people.
I repeat, this whole thing, which has been done dozens of ways, mainly on FB, is not an exercise in logic or math skills or intelligence. It's really nothing more than some guy's idea of how to trick people and feel superior about it.
Oh yeah, don't forget the paint brush stuck up the wizard's ass. SMH.
Calm down. The rules of mathematics do not say "look at parenthesis" and then go left to right. PEMDAS is the strict order of operations.
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