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230 - 220 x 0.5 = 5!

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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    Depends how it is written.

    Does bodmas come into it if you just put the figures into a calculator....no. 

    That being the case the answer is 5.

    If you were going it as a proper maths equation then the answer is 120. 
    Yes, that is right. It's a proper maths equation, so the answer is 5!
  • NorthheathAddick
    NorthheathAddick Posts: 4,017
    edited July 2019
    5! all day long,well for me anyways,I just worked it like this...
    230-220 (=10) x 0.5 = 5!

    wrong way by the sound of it,but heyho if 5! is the answer...👍

    & who is BODMAS...🤔
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,758
    5 is wrong.

    5! is right.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,033
    Good question.
    all comes down to if you know the difference between 5 and 5!
    I don’t.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    5 all day long,well for me anyways,I just worked it like this...
    230-220 (=10) x 0.5 = 5

    wrong way by the sound of it,but heyho if 5 is the answer...👍

    & who is BODMAS...🤔
    That's the sort of answer I would have come up with in maths tests at school.  I would have set out all my workings, made it absolutely clear what I was trying to do, got all the arithmetic right, but then got the answer completely wrong, having totally missed the point.  

    Unfortunately your post isn't right.  The answer is 5!
  • Chizz said:
    5 all day long,well for me anyways,I just worked it like this...
    230-220 (=10) x 0.5 = 5

    wrong way by the sound of it,but heyho if 5 is the answer...👍

    & who is BODMAS...🤔
    That's the sort of answer I would have come up with in maths tests at school.  I would have set out all my workings, made it absolutely clear what I was trying to do, got all the arithmetic right, but then got the answer completely wrong, having totally missed the point.  

    Unfortunately your post isn't right.  The answer is 5!
    But that's what I said...5...👍
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    Chizz said:
    5 all day long,well for me anyways,I just worked it like this...
    230-220 (=10) x 0.5 = 5

    wrong way by the sound of it,but heyho if 5 is the answer...👍

    & who is BODMAS...🤔
    That's the sort of answer I would have come up with in maths tests at school.  I would have set out all my workings, made it absolutely clear what I was trying to do, got all the arithmetic right, but then got the answer completely wrong, having totally missed the point.  

    Unfortunately your post isn't right.  The answer is 5!
    But that's what I said...5...👍
    Yes, you did!  But the answer isn't 5, it's 5!
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,454
    Depends how it is written.

    Does bodmas come into it if you just put the figures into a calculator....no. 

    That being the case the answer is 5.

    If you were going it as a proper maths equation then the answer is 120. 
    Depends on the calculator, you can't put the whole equation into a standard calculator, so bodmas does apply, it's just that the calculator you're using is incapable of applying it.

    Morning you have a decent calculator, like the ones recommended for GCSE and A level use, then you can enter the whole equation at once and the calculator will apply bodmas correctly.
  • Use brackets and there will only be one answer
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    Depends how it is written.

    Does bodmas come into it if you just put the figures into a calculator....no. 

    That being the case the answer is 5.

    If you were going it as a proper maths equation then the answer is 120. 
    Depends on the calculator, you can't put the whole equation into a standard calculator, so bodmas does apply, it's just that the calculator you're using is incapable of applying it.

    Morning you have a decent calculator, like the ones recommended for GCSE and A level use, then you can enter the whole equation at once and the calculator will apply bodmas correctly.
    The answer is 5! Even if the calculator says it's 120. 
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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    Use brackets and there will only be one answer
    There can be several answers to an equation.  One of the correct ones is 5!
  • Chizz said:
    Chizz said:
    5 all day long,well for me anyways,I just worked it like this...
    230-220 (=10) x 0.5 = 5

    wrong way by the sound of it,but heyho if 5 is the answer...👍

    & who is BODMAS...🤔
    That's the sort of answer I would have come up with in maths tests at school.  I would have set out all my workings, made it absolutely clear what I was trying to do, got all the arithmetic right, but then got the answer completely wrong, having totally missed the point.  

    Unfortunately your post isn't right.  The answer is 5!
    But that's what I said...5...👍
    Yes, you did!  But the answer isn't 5, it's 5!
    Haha...yeah see now wot I didn't do...🙄,I'm on the edit,but still same work out...😉
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,840
    Slow day
  • bellz2002
    bellz2002 Posts: 1,361
    Chizz said:
    bellz2002 said:
    Yes but 5! = 120 = 5! = 6x20 = 5! = 10x12 = 5!

    As far as I see it, it is the same therefore if you put 120 or 5! It makes no difference. It is the same.
    Yes, that's right.  But the equation gives the answer 5! And that is, de facto, correct. 
    Sorry yes that is what I meant. I completely agree  :)
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I would say 120 because of the absence of brackets.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    seth plum said:
    I would say 120 because of the absence of brackets.
    The question is whether you think the answer that's given is right or wrong!  And why!  The answer given is 5!
  • dogpat65
    dogpat65 Posts: 149
    A purist may say it's neither right or wrong. It's just TRUE
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,076
    So many idiots. :s
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    edited July 2019
    :cookie:
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    Chizz said:
    One for maths geeks.  

    Without giving it away, do you think
    • it's right, but you're not sure what's clever about it? 
    • it's right, but you have to have a pretty good understanding of maths to know why? 
    • it's wrong 

    120
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    Chizz Posts: 28,331
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    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,076
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  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    edited July 2019
    It is 5! Not 5 :-)

    Sorry didn't read all the posts. 
  • CatAddick
    CatAddick Posts: 2,385
    Very good.  I had to think about it.  All depends if you know what ! means