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View Poll Results: (7-3)+6÷2=
5 52 54.17%
7 44 45.83%
no idea 0 0%
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Old 12-10-11, 08:15 PM   #1
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from a sample 11 plus exam paper today...

(7-3)+6÷2=

and the answer is ?

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Old 12-10-11, 08:17 PM   #2
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7?

There seems to be a lot of these things floating around at the moment.
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Old 12-10-11, 08:17 PM   #3
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7?

There seems to be a lot of these things floating around at the moment.
we're right in the middle of 11 plus practice season, that'll be why
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Old 12-10-11, 08:21 PM   #5
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I'd say 5 aswell
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Yeah, but I was even lectured at the pub about BODMAS the other lunch time.....

Maybe a teacher who'd got fed up and had a few too many...?
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Old 12-10-11, 08:23 PM   #7
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The answer would be 7 if the question was (7-3)+(6÷2)=
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Old 12-10-11, 08:24 PM   #8
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edit - sorry didnt see it was a vote lol

Hint- At school they taught us to remember the word BODMAS to remember the correct order.

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Old 12-10-11, 08:33 PM   #9
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exactly. Now, the answer to the exam was listed as 5, but that isn't correct, it is as some of you entered 7.
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That's really bad. Who wrote the paper? Did you sack them?
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