[Roy Mars III]

Originally Posted by ukturtle

Nope, you start with the multiplication first. So you do the 5 x 0 then do the rest of the sum.

If it were all to be multiplied by zero it would have to look like this

(5 + 5 + 5 - 5 + 5 + 5 - 5 + 5) x 0

I failed geometry in high school, and even i got this

[Samuel.]

Ben's reasoning makes sense.

Would also explain why Google assumed that 5*0 would be bracketed.

[Benjamin]

I would love to claim it's my reasoning, but it's the the order of operations. I learnt it when I was younger.

There's a bit about it on here (yes, I know it's wiki, but I cba searching the net for a better source):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Boothy

I clicked 20 but, looking back over it, I think it is 15.

Because of BODMAS, you do 5 x 0 first which is 0. Then add all of the other 5s together, then take away the rest of the fives. I just added the rest of the fives up wrong.

Ah BODMAS how could I forget

[Josy]

I would answer 40 for that

[Josy]

WTF is BODMAS?

[Smithy]

Nicole is studying Maths at Uni if she says it's 0 then it's 0

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Nicole is studying Maths at Uni if she says it's 0 then it's 0

How on Earth did she answer this wrong then? The answer is 15.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Josy

WTF is BODMAS?

[Josy]

Never even heard of BODMAS, and it just looks confusing

My nephew was doing his homework the other day too and was trying to explain to me that everything has to get rounded up to 100 now before you do sums or something like that.... pfft scrap that, just bloody add up what you see and thats that

[CharlieO]

The answer is 15. Seriously people on here cannot do maths.

You always go a times/divide first and the add and subtract after unless there is brackets.

fp at people

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Josy

I would answer 40 for that

How did you get 40?

[CharlieO]

I am cringing at everyone who got this wrong. It is such basic maths, no wonder they want to up the school leaving age to 18 and make maths A-Level compulsory.

[MTVN]

I'd say people still at school are most likely to get this right, I pretty much forgot most things about Maths when I dropped it

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by CharlieO

I am cringing at everyone who got this wrong. It is such basic maths, no wonder they want to up the school leaving age to 18 and make maths A-Level compulsory.

It's been a long time since I was at school Charlie, you tend to forget those type of rules unless you're a Maths teacher

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

How did you get 40?

I added all the 5s together, but I have actually just noticed the - signs

[Marc]

I love how everybody is arguing over this equation.

I think there are good arguments for both 0 and 15.

[Samuel.]

Except the argument for 0 isn't right

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Josy

I added all the 5s together, but I have actually just noticed the - signs

[Roy Mars III]

The great thing about math is that there is only one right answer. This case 15

[Marc]

Josy

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Samuel.

Except the argument for 0 isn't right

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

The great thing about math is that there is only one right answer. This case 15

This.

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Josy

I added all the 5s together, but I have actually just noticed the - signs

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

The great thing about math is that there is only one right answer. This case 15

That's why I don't like Maths, there's no room for debate or interpretation

[CharlieO]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

It's been a long time since I was at school Charlie, you tend to forget those type of rules unless you're a Maths teacher

True I guess, I forget most of the stuff in a week so it's not surprising that 50 years () does that to you.