Help with BIDMAS
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Help with BIDMAS
( _ + _) x _= 11
5, 7, 11, 3, 4
Help please!!!!!
5, 7, 11, 3, 4
Help please!!!!!
Re: Help with BIDMAS
Are you sure that's right?
11 is prime so only has multiples of 1 and 11, since 1 isn't an option I can't see how this is right.
11 is prime so only has multiples of 1 and 11, since 1 isn't an option I can't see how this is right.
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Re: Help with BIDMAS
That's exactly what my daughter says! Glad it's not just us, thought we we're going mad!
Re: Help with BIDMAS
If there was a minus sign instead of a plus in the bracket you can make it work, or if some of the numbers were negative.
You aren't going mad.
You aren't going mad.
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Re: Help with BIDMAS
How about this one?
_ - _+_=12
5, 7, 11, 3, 4
_ - _+_=12
5, 7, 11, 3, 4
Re: Help with BIDMAS
11-3+4
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Re: Help with BIDMAS
Shouldn't the addition come first therefore that would equal 3+4=7 therefore 11-7=4??
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It would be -3+4 to give 1.
Doesn't actually matter which order -+ are done in
Doesn't actually matter which order -+ are done in
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Re: Help with BIDMAS
Thank you, I thought the whole idea was that Bidmas went in that order!
This is hard enough lol
This is hard enough lol