40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

[ManiacMatt1782]

I can't believe how many people answered this wrong.

[Graphik]

Re: 40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

Imma bite. Is it

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81?

[NDAlum]

Re: 40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

80?

I was taught to do addition/subtraction before multiplication/division

Who would write an equation like that?

[ManiacMatt1782]

Re: 40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

Hint: remember the order of operations.

[NDAlum]

Re: 40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

Imma bite. Is it

Spoiler

81?

I can say for a fact you are wrong lol

[NDAlum]

Re: 40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

I'm an idiot I forgot about PEMDAS!

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41

[ManiacMatt1782]

Re: 40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

80?

I was taught to do addition/subtraction before multiplication/division

Who would write an equation like that?

Where did you go to school? Everywhere I have been uses pemdas ()^x/+-

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Oops saw later post

[NDAlum]

Re: 40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

Where did you go to school? Everywhere I have been uses pemdas ()^x/+-

The school of speaking out of my rear lol

[Millennium]

It's 41. You always do multiplication before addition, unless there are parentheses instructioning you otherwise.

The popular answers are probably 81 (people that don't understand that anything times 0 is 0), or 80 (people doing the addition first).

[cjonesfan921]

Re: 40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

Yes, it is most definitely order of operations. 41. Maniac, I have come to accept the fact that most people just don't care. This site is different. I have always come to the conclusion that for the most part, most educated individuals are 'heavy' internet users, and I don't mean social networking.

[ManiacMatt1782]

Re: 40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

1 is actually the answer most people are fighting to the death about on Facebook.

80x0+1 is their reasoning.

[Scott]

Re: 40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

41 and I suck at math.

[Graphik]

Re: 40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

Learn something new everyday. Yesterday I learned how to count to Z.

[Chef Matt]

Re: 40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

I answered 1.

If it's not tablespoons or cups and pints, I'm pretty much worthless at math...

[KingV2k3]

Re: 40+40x0+1= (over 40,000 people looking awfully dumb on facebook)

I got it wrong because the "implied" parentheses threw me off...

If they were there, I'd have gotten it...

At extended glance, it's obvious...

Unfortunately, it's become a "fire, aim, ready" kind of world...