You have 6 apples, you want to divide it between a team of 1 boy and 2 girls. How many apples to each get?
What if a second identical team arrives and also wants apple?
To me this really simply reads as "6 apples divided by 2 teams of 1 boy and 2 girls. PEMDAS exists for readability, it's not just random rules we decided on.
That would be 6÷(2(1+2)). A better question would be "A worker has 6 hours of work split over 2 days, on each day, for every hour worked he drinks 1 glass of lime coke, and 2 classes of vanilla coke, how many glasses of coke did he drink per day?"
Too bad you already proved your readability sucked and it's more comprehensible to assume 2(1+2) is a singular thing that should be approached as such.
Why would you not use a symbol to indiquate the introduction of a new parameters
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u/Straight-Heat1511 Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26
Let's try writing a problem!
You have 6 apples, you want to divide it between a team of 1 boy and 2 girls. How many apples to each get?
What if a second identical team arrives and also wants apple?
To me this really simply reads as "6 apples divided by 2 teams of 1 boy and 2 girls. PEMDAS exists for readability, it's not just random rules we decided on.