[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Shasown

Because of the lack of brackets you start at the left and work through the sum.

That means the ongoing sum at the end would be multiplied by 0 which makes the total 0

That's what I would have thought but I don't have much confidence in my Maths skills

[nicole_burks]

It's zero.

[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

[Josy]

I would answer 40 for that

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Josy

I would answer 40 for that

How did you get 40?

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

How did you get 40?

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

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Josy

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

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Josy

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

[Josy]

WTF is BODMAS?

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Josy

WTF is BODMAS?

[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

Originally Posted by ukturtle

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

Originally Posted by MTVN

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[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.

[Marc]

I love how everybody is arguing over this equation.

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

[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

[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.

[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

[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.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by CharlieO

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

Oi, cheeky

[CharlieO]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Oi, cheeky

Sorry that was a typo I meant 5 years. Well you do only look 24.

[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

[Samuel.]

Except the argument for 0 isn't right

[Roy Mars III]

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