Something to ponder on a Sunday afternoon.

[John Benton]

10

 

[jobdone]

50

 

[jobdone]

Just put my glasses on second time 40

 

[GoneGuy]

Hmmm answer is a number between 1-100😀

10

 

[Concrete guy]

Brackets, orders, division, multiplication, addition, subtraction in that order

It was this I was thinking of. However there are no brackets, so the sums read left to right in order. In my mind at least!

 

[John Benton]

It was this I was thinking of. However there are no brackets, so the sums read left to right in order. In my mind at least!

Still work on that basis Alan

 

[Concrete guy]

I'm just confused now, it's Sunday night and I've had a bottle of wine already. I've just noticed there are fewer Nana's in line three and the cookie has less chocolate chips, however the two permutations I can arrive at there, 35 and 50 and have already been guessed.

Sometimes Maths just fries my noodle.

So to that end I'd eat the banana's and the cookie which leaves you with a clock which is worth 3. So the answer is three and I've had Cookies and Banana.

 

[WetSaw]

 

[Qwerty]

If it's not 28, then is it 21?

 

[WetSaw]

11

 

[Italy]

69

 

[Julian 'Farmer' Bonsall]

Assuming I've read the times correctly as 3pm and 2pm and we have 10 and 7 choc drops then its 10.

 

[Andy Allen]

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10....🙂

 

[One Day]

It's that stupid American way of bracketing when there are no brackets.
They've ruined the English language and now it's mathematics (US "math") 😡

 

[Julian 'Farmer' Bonsall]

We were taught BIDMAS rather than "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally". Don't quite know where it was invented though.

 

[Simon Dale]

Its 170 Gary Walsh got it right

 

[Old Mod]

Answer is 10.



1 Banana x 7 choc chips = 7
2 o’clock + 1 Banana = 3
7 + 3 = 10

 

[Dumbo]

We were taught BIDMAS rather than "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally". Don't quite know where it was invented though.

We were taught very little

 

[Concrete guy]

Well I had to Google BODMAS, I was certainly not taught this at school (I'm 50 next year). I was taught everything in brackets first, then work the sum left to right.

 

[Old Mod]

Well I had to Google BODMAS, I was certainly not taught this at school (I'm 50 next year). I was taught everything in brackets first, then work the sum left to right.

Yep, all new to me too Alan.

I just saw the puzzle elsewhere and it created a great response, hence my plagiarism 😀
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[WetSaw]

I saw a similar thing before and I think young Mr Benton mentioned BODMAS and that was the first time in my 56 years on this planet that I'd ever heard of it.

 

[Old Mod]

Mr Benton mentioned BODMAS
.

Yes he did, and that’s why I stopped commenting 😛
And why he got a PM telling him he talks too much! 😀

 

[Old Mod]

In fact if you do 2 + 1 +1 x 7 on a calculator, it gives 10 as the answer.

 

[WetSaw]

Maybe I should have gone to school a bit more often.

 

[Old Mod]

Maybe I should have gone to school a bit more often.

Well I was taught to A level maths, and I’d never seen it before.

 

[Concrete guy]

Well in my few Google searches about this today it appears there can be two answers to the same equation depending if you use BODMAS or not. I've not even started to figure out when you do or don't apply it.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Maybe I should have gone to school a bit more often.

But think of all the fun you had mending bikes!

 

[Blunt Tool]

10

 

[John Benton]

Maybe I should have gone to school a bit more often.

I bet you're a cracking pool player though

 

[WetSaw]

I bet you're a cracking pool player though

I'm bloody useless at any sport that involves a ball. TJ was right, I was tinkering with cars and motorbikes.

 

[Julian 'Farmer' Bonsall]

PEMSAS is what they teach at my daughter's school but those puzzles drive me insane.
The simple calculator in windows would get 3 + 2 * 5 wrong and produce 13.