This is so easy to get right...or wrong...

[User6179]

Have fun searching the internet for that one!

Probably only means something to anyone who has lived in the NE of Scotland*

* not the real NE of Scotland but Aberdeenshire/Tayside area

Fit you tackin aboot

 

[bonsaibilly]

I agree with your sentiment, but will say in my defence that once the original panic subsided, I realised it was 15 and BODMAS is where it's at. I'm sticking now.

Hang on, you actively fought against bodmas, I can't see how you can credibly claim it was simply panic!

 

[rich p]

Have fun searching the internet for that one!

Probably only means something to anyone who has lived in the NE of Scotland*

* not the real NE of Scotland but Aberdeenshire/Tayside area

Is it Vietnamese street food, like mok chop suppa and ho lee phok?

 

[ChrisV]

Hang on, you actively fought against bodmas, I can't see how you can credibly claim it was simply panic!

Who said anything about credibility. That's what I'm going with. Simple panic.

 

[YahudaMoon]

Would have been so much more fun using bicycles, tricycles and someone not wearing a helmet, other than a controversial restaurant

 

[raleighnut]

Heartburn ?

 

[YahudaMoon]

Heartburn ?

Still hungry, should've used Archies

 

[Oxo]

I'm sticking with my original answer, just surprised there isn't a take-away in there

 

[Dayvo]

Soixante dix.

 

[DaveReading]

There is no answer.

I teach GCSE Maths and I would hope any of my students could tell you that. Talk about BODMAS (or BIDMAS) is irrelevant.

The only thing the symbols can possibly represent is either the things themselves (burgers, chips or cola) or the price thereof (5, 2 and 10, respectively, in some unspecified currency - let's say £ for the sake of argument).

Neither
chips x cola
or
£2 x £5

makes sense in any known universe.

 

[Aperitif]

There is no answer.

I teach GCSE Maths and I would hope any of my students could tell you that. Talk about BODMAS (or BIDMAS) is irrelevant.

The only thing the symbols can possibly represent is either the things themselves (burgers, chips or cola) or the price thereof (5, 2 and 10, respectively, in some unspecified currency - let's say £ for the sake of argument).

Neither
chips x cola
or
£2 x £5

makes sense in any known universe.

A comprehensive answer, Dave.

 

[winjim]

Of course the problem's crap. It's designed to be crap. Let me see if I can find that other even crapper one...

This one:

 

[hopless500]

60

 

[nickyboy]

This one:

96

Referring to the 3 numbers as X,Y and Z, the sequence is X times Y plus X equals Z (so 2x5 + 2 = 12). So 8 x 11 +8 = 96

But using numbers is confusing. Should use chicken nuggets or filets of fish

 

[Haitch]

Simpler is to add the sum of the previous line to the sum of the following line, i.e.
1+4 = 5
5+2+5 = 12
12+3+6 = 21
to give:
21+8+11 = 40