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#2 Help Me ! » Do we use BODMAS or not? » 2008-01-11 23:18:48

optrex
Replies: 16

My 10 year old daugher has the following numeracy questions

13 + 7 / ? = 6
she has answered 5 here

and

7 + 49 / ? = 7
she has answered 8 here

obviously working from left to right those answers are correct. But what happened to BODMAS? Surely the questions should be worked out as

7 divided by something, then add 13 = 6

and

49 divided by something, then add 7 = 7

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