• fruitSnackSupreme@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    How is PEMDAS 16? Multiply is before divide, so it’s 1. I was taught BEDMAS, divide before multiply, which makes it 16. I don’t know what is correct, just asking.

    • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 years ago

      PEMDAS is actually (PE)(MD)(AS). Those that are grouped together have equal precedence and are evaluated left to right.

      8 / 2 * (2+2)

      8 / 2 * 4

      4 * 4

      16

      Edit to fix formatting, maybe?