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Yeah, I may just be doing it wrong, too. That's definitely a possibility. I'm generally good at math, but it's also been years since I had to do any of this stuff, and I don't remember all the details. I also tried it through from some other angles, and was coming up mostly with the "9" answer. So I think I'm just wrong, and talked myself around in circles. Although I still stand by that it's a weird ass statement that's meant to be confusing.
Because it's designed to.
Bleh, even though I'm mostly settled, I'm not totally satisfied with my answers, either. I could even make a (probably retarded) argument for something along the lines of what the person in the pic tried to do, with an answer of 7. But generally, no matter how I skew it, I'm getting the 9 version. I'm still not completely sold though, but that's probably just human error.
Come to think of it, another comment showed me that you may have been correct. If you regard the whole expression as a fraction (and I don't see why you would, but you could decide to), then it really does become (A)/(B).
And if you do that, you do end up with 6/6.
See some of the videos I linked too, I think they make compelling arguments.
PEMDAS gives you 9, but the issue there is PEMDAS is overly simplistic and doesn't seem to be what people who actually use math do.
Juxtaposition/implied multiplication is given precedence over multiplication/division, for something more along the lines of PEJMDAS, and that gives you 1.
I think "1" is more correct, but the real answer is still that this is a grammar problem, not a math problem. If this was clarified for readability, it would only output one (easily found) clean answer, but it's intentionally trolling people instead. This is not complicated math, it's unclear notation.
I assume PEMDAS is Parentheses something something Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction?
Interesting. Crazy stuff. You think you know things, and then suddenly, turns out that it's not as certain as you thought.
E is Exponents. Juxtaposition or implied multiplication is something like the 2(2+1) in this equation. So PEMDAS treats juxtaposition as the same value as multiplication/division, so reads that as 2*****(2+1), where you would do the 6/2 first, but the system more advanced math seems to do would be solve 2(2+1) before dividing.
Which would basically treat the whole thing as a fraction, along the lines of
6
───────
2(2+1)
And I'm not an expert or anything either, I'm mostly going by what other people said.
Also, I find it hilarious that different calculators will actually give you different results. Some calculators use PEMDAS, while some give more weight to juxtaposition. The latter seems to give better results, from what I've seen. Funny story from one of the vids I linked, but American teachers are so obsessed with their PEMDAS mnemonic that they actually lobbied a calculator company to switch from PEJMDAS to PEMDAS. Meaning teachers of all people are trying to effectively write the rules of math around their own little teaching methods. That's a problem.