Simple equation

[Speicher]

19

 

[Andy_R]

9

3 divided by a third is 1. 9 -1+1 is...wait for it...9

 

[Markymark]

9

3 divided by a third is 1. 9 -1+1 is...wait for it...9

3 divided by a third is what now?

 

[cisamcgu]

It was 1 at the beginning and is still 1 now ...

 

[Profpointy]

I stand corrected.

I made the same goof first time. I think we were misled by being used to cancelling fractions thus treating the division as a multiply.

 

[TheDoctor]

This is why RPN is good.

 

[Andy_R]

3 divided by a third is what now?

Oh, Foff...I've been imbibing and as of this moment am not arithmetically articulate, or accurate..ask me again in the morning to paraphrase Mr Chuchill to Lady Astor...

 

[Drago]

11

 

[marzjennings]

It can't be solved correctly as the question hasn't been written correctly. All this BODMAS stuff and other order of operations BS are just really bad mathematical concepts.

 

[User16625]

[QUOTE 4899304, member: 76"]Or maybe 2. To be honest I lost my confidence after the very first part.

You are asked to divide 6 by 1/3, but 1/3 of what? Surely we need to know what we are dividing 6 by, and the 1/3 doesn't give us that. I reckon there should be some brackets or something in there somewhere.[/QUOTE]

1 third of 1 given the absence of the answer to your question. This is what I came up with:

19.018

 

[midlife]

This is why RPN is good.

Yup. Reverse Polish Notation has no parentheses and the early Texas Instruments calculators had it built in iirc

 

[TheDoctor]

I know HP used it, didn't know TI did. I first used RPN in Forth programming.

 

[alicat]

1

 

[postman]

After a sleepless night,and much cogitation i have decided i'm 1 too.How about you.

 

[guitarpete247]

1 here also. Go on what's the answer then.