Network users turned their attention to the next simplest children’s task, the solution of which divided social networks into several camps.
On Twitter, a user with the nickname Fetusberry posted a snapshot with the simplest math problem in school. According to Gamebomb.ru, the following example is shown to the children in the photo: 20/5 (2 * 2). At the same time, two answers “16” and “1” are presented, as well as a comment indicating that “both answers are equally true”. The Fetusberry user did not agree with this and provided the others with the opportunity to decide which of the answers is correct.
“equally correct”pic.twitter.com/E4sbP43Bpa
– Fetusberry 「Doingles ™」 Crunch (@Fetusberry) January 19, 2023
Many users began to discuss a mathematical example and prove which of the answers is actually correct. According to some, the correct answer is “1”: “Answer” 1 “. To get 16, you need to write an example like this: (20/5) (2 * 2). ” Others began to insist on the answer “16”. “I think the correct answer is“ 16 ”, because after you get rid of the brackets, the calculus goes from left to right,” one of the commentators wrote.
As a result, after long discussions, there were those who called both answers incorrect and accused the drafters of the task of not writing it correctly. “Not a single answer is correct. The correct answer here is to name the person who wrote this example an idiot. Teachers should talk about ambiguity and that equations can be poorly composed, like English sentences, ”wrote a user with the nickname Rick Dias. Others blamed the American PEMDAS system. “PEMDAS has always been the wrong system. I don’t understand why Americans think that multiplication has a higher priority than division, because they have the same priority as addition with subtraction, ”a user of FrenchHoneyBadger said. It is worth noting that there is also a BOMDAS system used in Europe.
As recalls Gamebomb.ru, last summer, network users were puzzled by a similar problem with the same answers “1” and “16”. Then the social networks were also divided into several camps, coming to the general conclusion that the example was written incorrectly and in it two solutions were obtained depending on the system.
