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What is 5-5x5+5?
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Sweet baby jebus! I hope some of the people in this thread don't have important roles in life.
Did you even scroll through the thread, let alone read it?
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You don't need to work it out just google it.
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Following BODMAS the answer should be -25 as BODMAS has to be done in that order. However many folks on here are doing BODMSA instead to end up with -15 although there is the claim that you don't have to stick to AS order you just have to go left to right with AS which would mean using either AS or SA 
Anyway,
5-5x5+5 = ?
5-(5x5)+5 = MULTIPLY FIRST - BODMAS
5-(25+5) = ADDITION SECOND - BODMAS
5-30 = SUBTRACTION LAST - BODMAS
or
5-(5x5)+5 = MULTIPLY FIRST - BODMSA
(5-25)+5 = SUBTRACTION SECOND - BODMSA
-20 + 5 = ADDITION LAST - BODMSA
Giving -25 or -15 but there's a few ways of doing it which will give different answers so, in the end, the real answer is the lessons we learnt on our journey to find the answer!
Anyway,
5-5x5+5 = ?
5-(5x5)+5 = MULTIPLY FIRST - BODMAS
5-(25+5) = ADDITION SECOND - BODMAS
5-30 = SUBTRACTION LAST - BODMAS
or
5-(5x5)+5 = MULTIPLY FIRST - BODMSA
(5-25)+5 = SUBTRACTION SECOND - BODMSA
-20 + 5 = ADDITION LAST - BODMSA
Giving -25 or -15 but there's a few ways of doing it which will give different answers so, in the end, the real answer is the lessons we learnt on our journey to find the answer!
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Caporegime
Following BODMAS the answer should be -25 as BODMAS has to be done in that order, too many folks on here are doing BODMSA instead to end up with -15 although there is the claim that you don't have to stick to AS order you just have to go left to right with AS which would mean using either AS or SA
Anyway,
5-5x5+5 = ?
5-(5x5)+5 = MULTIPLY FIRST - BODMAS
5-(25+5) = ADDITION SECOND - BODMAS
5-30 = SUBTRACTION LAST - BODMAS
or
5-(5x5)+5 = MULTIPLY FIRST - BODMSA
(5-25)+5 = SUBTRACTION SECOND - BODMSA
-20 + 5 = ADDITION LAST - BODMSA
Giving -25 or -15 but there's a few ways of doing it which will give different answers so, in the end, the real answer is the lessons we learnt on our journey to find the answer!
Yeah...I was a bit stumped reading through but that's what I did!
Following BODMAS the answer should be -25 as BODMAS has to be done in that order. However many folks on here are doing BODMSA instead to end up with -15 although there is the claim that you don't have to stick to AS order you just have to go left to right with AS which would mean using either AS or SA
Y'all need to re-learn some kiddy maths if these confused maths takes are genuine and not just adding to the earlier bad takes for the LOLs:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zsnycdm/revision/1
Caporegime
Following BODMAS the answer should be -25 as BODMAS has to be done in that order. However many folks on here are doing BODMSA instead to end up with -15 although there is the claim that you don't have to stick to AS order you just have to go left to right with AS which would mean using either AS or SA
Anyway,
5-5x5+5 = ?
5-(5x5)+5 = MULTIPLY FIRST - BODMAS
5-(25+5) = ADDITION SECOND - BODMAS
5-30 = SUBTRACTION LAST - BODMAS
or
5-(5x5)+5 = MULTIPLY FIRST - BODMSA
(5-25)+5 = SUBTRACTION SECOND - BODMSA
-20 + 5 = ADDITION LAST - BODMSA
Giving -25 or -15 but there's a few ways of doing it which will give different answers so, in the end, the real answer is the lessons we learnt on our journey to find the answer!
BODMAS still requires you to go from left to right. SOHCAHTOA on the other hand all I remember was the way to remember it "Silly old Hitler couldn't advance his troops over Africa". Can you imagine that being taught in school now as a way to remember something.
Hitler is still fair game, carry on.BODMAS still requires you to go from left to right. SOHCAHTOA on the other hand all I remember was the way to remember it "Silly old Hitler couldn't advance his troops over Africa". Can you imagine that being taught in school now as a way to remember something.
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Giving -25 or -15 but there's a few ways of doing it which will give different answers so, in the end, the real answer is the lessons we learnt on our journey to find the answer!
Yeh screw it just stick it into google.
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Over 3 pages of GD
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Following BODMAS the answer should be -25 as BODMAS has to be done in that order. However many folks on here are doing BODMSA instead to end up with -15 although there is the claim that you don't have to stick to AS order you just have to go left to right with AS which would mean using either AS or SA
Anyway,
5-5x5+5 = ?
5-(5x5)+5 = MULTIPLY FIRST - BODMAS
5-(25+5) = ADDITION SECOND - BODMAS
5-30 = SUBTRACTION LAST - BODMAS
or
5-(5x5)+5 = MULTIPLY FIRST - BODMSA
(5-25)+5 = SUBTRACTION SECOND - BODMSA
-20 + 5 = ADDITION LAST - BODMSA
Giving -25 or -15 but there's a few ways of doing it which will give different answers so, in the end, the real answer is the lessons we learnt on our journey to find the answer!
It's not addition then subtraction, It's addition AND subtraction completing from left to right. The answer is -15.
Soldato
Indeed.
Brackets first
Orders (i.e. Powers and Square Roots, etc.)
Division and Multiplication (left-to-right)
Addition and Subtraction (left-to-right)
This is probably the biggest flaw in the BODMAS mnemonic - it doesn't actually mean you have to do DMAS in that order.
(DM and) AS have equal precedence and should be carried out in the order they appear.
This confuses a lot of people who only vaguely remember it from school.
Soldato
Minus fifteen.
Man of Honour
What is 5-5x5+5?
It's a deliberately poorly constructed string of numbers and operators
This is the best answer. It's better to write clearly than to rely on everyone remembering an arbitrary order with an inaccurate mnemonic.
Soldato
Or even simpler, don't be a halfwit.