Math Time

Okay, tell me what 2 -5 + 10 x 20 equals. Bonus points if you put the brackets where they aught to be, oh and cookie to whom ever can tell me what PEMDAS means

Well it’s morning time and only one person responded, I am not sure if they got it right though as this question was brought up in an online forum and within a couple of hours there where three different responses. PEMDAS is a simple way of remembering the logic behind arithmetic operations it goes: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication and Division, and Addition and Subtraction. These rules where created because the very question above; 2-5 + 10 x 20 has more than one answer if you break it down linearly you end up with 2 -5 = -3, -3 + 10 = 7, 7 x 20 = 140. However the correct answer is achieved with PEMDAS, multiplication is done first therefore we multiply ten by twenty to get two hundred. Next it’s addition which means we have to add -5 to 200, equalling 195. Then we have that two left all on its own, from what I remember every number either is negative or positive, so when written side by side it would be +2+195. When worked out that gives us 197 the true answer to this riddle.

I think I went about doing mine slightly differently to Weldo but it gave the same answer, silly math questions like this interest me and even though I pretty much fail at math I still find it entertaining; I guess I’m just odd