After staring at this for a while, I think I get it. It is rather ambiguously formatted. But I really, really don't understand maths, so the fact that I got it at all is an achievement here.
It is ambiguously formatted because people are still debating over it. And the point is that you can argue for 1 AND 9. Of course, people think it's math, therefore you must have one correct answer.
But it really depends on how you interpret where the 2 is grouped with 6 or (1+2).
I was awesome at math (oh the stereotype) until high school. I just stopped caring. *shrug* All my math teachers...didn't really explain enough, so I can understand the frustration. But in college I got a really good score on my math requirement (A-, equivalent to 88-92/100).
Based from what I remember of my math classes, the answer should be 1. IDK how it's taught elsewhere, but in my high school, faced with this formatting, we were taught to consider 2 to be grouped with (1+2).
Personally I read the 2 as grouped into (1+2) so I got 1 as well. It's just badly written, in such a way that there is no universal right answer. Is the slash indicative of a division sign or a fraction sign?
I just find it annoying that some of the responses were "LOL PEMDAS. WHY SO STUPID? OBVS IT'S 9" and such.
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/struggled with maths all her life.
Anyhow, you're right.
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But it really depends on how you interpret where the 2 is grouped with 6 or (1+2).
I was awesome at math (oh the stereotype) until high school. I just stopped caring. *shrug* All my math teachers...didn't really explain enough, so I can understand the frustration. But in college I got a really good score on my math requirement (A-, equivalent to 88-92/100).
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I just find it annoying that some of the responses were "LOL PEMDAS. WHY SO STUPID? OBVS IT'S 9" and such.
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