To: SMGFan
The operations should be performed in order from left to right. There are no tricks to this puzzle. But 12 + 34 x 56 + 78 + 9 = 2003 requires that the multiplication be done before the addition operations. So which is it, left to right or multiplication first?
10 posted on
01/29/2012 7:58:36 AM PST by
KarlInOhio
(Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
To: KarlInOhio
But 12 + 34 x 56 + 78 + 9 = 2003 requires that the multiplication be done before the addition operations. So which is it, left to right or multiplication first?
Multiplication and division over addition and subtraction. A "puzzle" that depends on violating order of operations isn't really a puzzle.
11 posted on
01/29/2012 8:01:01 AM PST by
aruanan
To: KarlInOhio
“...left to right or multiplication first.”
Multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, in that order, in the absence of parentheses.
12 posted on
01/29/2012 8:05:52 AM PST by
VietVet
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