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I came across this on facebook,anyone tell me the answer 40+40x0+1=?

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40+40=80
80x0=0
0+1=1

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41

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40+40x(0+1)=80

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40+40=80
80x0=0
0+1 = 1

answer 1

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Answer is 80. I think. With the absence of brackets to make it clear, one should do additions/subtractions before multiplications/divisions. Then again it's a long time since I did 'O' level maths!

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Answer is 80. I think. With the absence of brackets to make it clear, one should do additions/subtractions before multiplications/divisions. Then again it's a long time since I did 'O' level maths!

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As written by the OP, following PEMDAS rule, Kedikat is right!
(Second) 40X0=0; thus (first) 40+0+1=41.

As rewritten by Aitchie - 40+40x(0+1)=80, answer is calculated:
(0+1)=1; (second 40X1=40); 40+40=80.

The brackets/parentheses (not in the original post) alter order of calculation.

Have a look here.

PS. - I had to look up Pemdas online to refresh/confirm my memory.....!

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40 + 40 = 80
80 x 0 = 0 (80 x 1 = 80)
+ 1 = 1

answer 1

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Post by Panchocat »

Using BODMAS Brackets over division/multiplication/addition/subtraction the answer would be 41
40x0 =0
40+0 =40
40+1 = 41

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answer is = 41
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=1
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The answer is Efes................

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Remember BODMAS from school, it's 41
The wife keeps complaining I never listen to a word she says ............. or something like that.

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When I looked it up earlier, I also remembered it as BODMAS, but didn't find that on first try; PEMDAS came up, which appears to be the US version - they use "Parenthesis, Exponent..." whereas we use "Bracket, Order...." - but still the same result...

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Hedge-fund wrote:The answer is Efes................
Yeah but when will the Lira be £1=5tl?

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We also used bodmas at school so I come up with 41. Put it into a spread sheet on Excel and it also comes up with 41 therefore it must be 41.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/operation-order-bodmas.html

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Thanks everyone,have to admit i've never heard of BODMAS but the it was probably taught to me over 50 years ago(i sometimes forget what i did an hour ago)Without any brackets i started from the left and came up with the answer 1.As for those who came up with 80 the wheel's still turning but i think you need to change the hamster.Thanks again.

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I was beginning to think Shai-Hulud had taken you......

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It's been a long long time since i read that book

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Still 1

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No Steve it isn't.

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You do not need to be an expert to work out the answer to this one!
Basic rule in Maths says multiplication/division first, addition/subtraction after.
So all those who say 41 are right - trust me I am a Maths teacher

AND Groucho! The question at this time should be "when will be 1 stg = 3.50 Lira??? (official rate this morning is 1 TL = 3.5439) ,

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I was rather bad at maths in my school days (I scraped a C at O level in 1976), but even I'd worked out it was 41. Thank you for improving my self esteem bigOz !

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