• Triasha@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Pemdas, parenthesis first, for a total of 3. Then multiplication, 15, then addition. 17. What’s hard about this?

    • AquaTofana@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      I fucking suck at math and totally just re-proved it to myself with this problem lmao.

      It didn’t make sense to me to multiply the 3 & the 5 with zero consideration for the “2”. I have ALWAYS struggled with the steps to solve these types of equations.

      So the answer I got was 21. Some of us are just bad with numbers, I s’pose.

      • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 hours ago

        The numbers in the equation and their totals are completely irrelevant to the order you perform the operations.

        I don’t think it’s an issue of “being bad with numbers”, I think the issue is not understanding the logic or being able to understand the bottom up type of thinking or something.