Are you an idiot?

[deathtaker26]

Solve this math problem:

20/2(5+5)

I'm sick of seeing it on facebawk answered by so many stupid ass uneducated quacks. (Half my friends list… all 2 of them :'D)

[Mohenjo Daro]

It should be just 100

[deathtaker26]

> It should be just 100

Wrong.

[Marsh]

Probably

[NoOne]

Is the answer 1?…

[YourBestNightmare]

syntax error, unexpected '(' :D :D

[Officer Johnson]

answer is 1 isnt it lol

[Vus]

Are you an idiot?

[Find out here!](http://www.youareanidiot.org/)

[deathtaker26]

I'm almost 200% sure it's 1

[Vus]

20/2(5+5)

I'd say 100.

If I recall correctly, brackets go first, so it changes to 20/2(10), which is 20/2*10.

Now, they / and * are on the same level, so we go from left side, which makes it 10*10 = 100.

Or not, maybe I'm wrong.

[deathtaker26]

but distributive property is a thing…

20/2(5+5) = 20/(2*5 + 2*5 ) = 20/(10+10) = 20/20 = 1

[deathtaker26]

I can't remember if distributive property gets rid of brackets or noth though… so it could actually be 12

20/2(5+5) = 20/10 + 10 = 2 + 10 = 12

[Officer Johnson]

thats not how you do distributive property

[Mohenjo Daro]

You can distribute it if you want, it would go something like…

20/2(5+5) to 10(5+5) to (50+50) = 100

You do parentheses first, exponents second, multiplication and division third, addition and subtraction forth. And you do those left to right, aka, 20/2 then the 10 and then you multiply it with the parentheses.

[BeNjO]

In other words, Crest you're stupid. And your 200% correct statement made you even more stupid.

[Andiii]

It's 100 like the others said.

[deathtaker26]

That makes no sense, you do distributive property at the beginning of the equation because it has parenthesis.

20/2(5+5) = 20/(10+10) = 20/20 = 1 I'm telling you it's 1

[Mohenjo Daro]

And I'm telling you that you're wrong.

You cannot MULTIPLY from right to left which is what you are doing, you have to divide then you may distribute since it's the equivalent to (5+5) = 10 which leads to 20/2*10 which would be 10*10=100

[BeNjO]

Using basic math, the answer is one, because:


= 1

but correctly used its actually 100:


= 100

[JeffSventora]

> That makes no sense, you do distributive property at the beginning of the equation because it has parenthesis.
>
> 20/2(5+5) = 20/(10+10) = 20/20 = 1 I'm telling you it's 1

That means do what's in the parenthesis first, which would be adding those constants. Answer should be 100.

[deathtaker26]

the parenthesis are setup for distributive property….

and I never multiplied right to left.

[Mohenjo Daro]

You don't distribute before multiplying outside the parentheses, in other words, you have been going right to left

If you want to know the answer then [HERE](https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=20%2F2%285%2B5%29&oq=20%2F2%285%2B5%29&gs_l=serp.12..0i71l2.0.0.0.18851.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.msedr...0...1c..62.serp..0.0.0.-3ubsf-AZl0)

[JohnPony]

20/(2(5+5)) is equal to 1.

20/2(5+5) is equal to 100.

Discussion over. Lock this thread and shut up.

[lexkymbeth]

To be honest this is how we do it in school (And everywhere else in the world)

(Order Of Operations AKA PEMDAS)

1. Parentheses first
2. Exponents
3. Multiplication and Division (left-to-right)
4. Addition and Subtraction (left-to-right)

20/2(5+5) 

Parentheses first:

20/2(10)

No Exponents, Skip

Multiply/Devide left to right

20/2 = 10

10(10)

Ans = 100

Basic Math

#100%inmath

Edit:

> the parenthesis are setup for distributive property….
>
> and I never multiplied right to left.

You **only**
use distributive property for letters

Likeso:

5(x+3) = 5x + 15

yea lock the thread

[Colonello]

Yup it's 1\. Just as Lex said you use the Order of Operations. I'm surprised that so many people don't know about it. I learned it in 3rd grade. ;-;