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Second roll because i failed in the first post.

It is a new day
Two Rolls, but not two Haikus
Will I write today

Ahem.

Lesigh

Whoops messed that up ... Lol

pease

Here we go!

Edit: WHAT?!

Grats!

Thought that would be 55 if you followed math rules. Well then congrats

Thanks Dino!

XXXKill: I'm not sure how exactly you did it ^^ But I think myself and at least some others (I saw someone else say it) were using our calculators and just putting in the numbers and actions as they appeared in the original post.

Pemdas. Parenthesis, exponent, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction

That was the order of operations for math I was taught.

Oooh okay! That makes sense, I remember learning about that lol. I may be wrong, but I'm not sure that Caroline intended for it to be done in that method, because there's no guarantee that everyone would know of or be versed in that method. But I can certainly see how you could come to that answer!

Well, I hope you were right with what you got

Thanks, me too! xD If not though, it's no biggie haha

The answer is 55. If you put the problem in Google, that's the only answer you get. Google automatically applies pemdas because you can't have two different outcomes for the same problem - math is solid, otherwise it becomes unreliable! Pemdas is something that I think everyone has been taught at some point - all my life all maths problems of this nature have been solved by solving parenthesis first, then exponents, then multiplication/division, then adding/subtracting by going from left to right. So in this case the problem looks like this:

7 + (7 * 7) - (7 ÷ 7)

Because you solve the multiplication first (49) and then the division (1) your problem becomes:

7 + 49 - 1 = 55

This is a format set in stone for as far as I know to avoid one problem having two different outcomes. There's more info here: http://www.purplemath.com/modules/orderops.htm

I really want you to win! But it's not possible to have two answers to this unfortunately.

Edit: To clarify, if this problem was in a maths book, the default answer is 55 because the problem is not formatted. However, if the OP means for the answer to be 49, then it should have been written as 7 + (7 * (7 - (7 ÷ 7))) - this results in 49. The answer could even be 0 if she meant it to be (7 + 7) * (7 - 7) / 7. But because there's no context, the correct answer defaults to 55. I hope this explains?

Edit 2: The reason a calculator says 13 is because the calculator doesn't take the whole problem in one go. It calculates based on a previous outcome, e.g. it calculates 7 + 7, solves this as a standalone problem, then proceeds by making a new problem by writing 14 * 7 - that's why at the end you get 13, but also why it makes the answer void. It technically doesn't solve 7 + 7 * 7 - 7 / 7, it makes new problems as it goes along.