AdeniyiA:
sorry guy, you don't know how to use BODMAS, It's (3)+(3*3) -3 +3, minus 3 cancels +3 => 3+9 = 12

Wrong! The answer is 12.

The answer is purely 6. Nothing like 12

Akiika:
Chei! See graduates wey wan go work for bank o.
If you still don't agree that the answer is 6, you should be ban from Nairaland until you go back to school to learn arithmetic again.
Mtchew! Na only abuse with horrible grammar dem sabi.
Awon olodo rabata!

Iwo gangan ni olodo rabata

I'm sure your younger ones can solve it correctly.

You should know that addition and subtraction ank equally in the bodmas acronym, so do multiplication and division.

-3+3 will always be zero no matter the circumstances.

Read about how BODMAS works or shut up forever

oluwanoni:


Olodo rapata ...just pulling ur legs.

mtwcheeeew

abeniagbon:
I got A1 in mathematics the equation is 3+3×3-3+3=

Now re- grouping

3+[3×3]-[3+3]=

3+9 - [3+3]

12 - 6

Ans is 6

Bros, you need to return your Certificate to WAEC immediately.

Who asked you to put brackets?

-3+3 will always be zero, no matter the circumstances. This is one of the fundamental rules in arithmetics

Bodmas is actually
B
O
DM
AS

Divison and multiplication are on the same level. Subtraction and addition also rank equally.

Please which school did you graduate from?

I didn't expect to c many arguments wen I saw the question but alas na debate untop simple arithmetic.SMH

abeniagbon:
I got A1 in mathematics the equation is 3+3×3-3+3=

Now re- grouping

3+[3×3]-[3+3]=

3+9 - [3+3]

12 - 6

Ans is 6

Your arrogance annoys me to no end.

Kutunban:
3+3*3-3+3=0
(3+3)(3-3)+3=0
9-9+9-9+3=0
Or
(9-9)+(9-9)+3=0
0+0+3=3

If OP who created this thread FAILED the answer like this, it MEANS that 87% of the people probably GOT the answer and 13% failed it. That's a good percentage showing majority of Nigerians are good.
Answer is 12 my friend. Because 3+3*3-3+3 is NOT EQUAL to 3+3*3-3-3.

Kutunban:
I saw the below equation on First Bank BBM channel and what i saw with great dismay was the poor answers people were writing. Seriously our arithmetical knowledge needs to be awaken because i can't see a nation developing with poor analytical skills especially with simple equation.



So Nairaland members lets see those with good knowledge of arithmetic and those who will embarrass their parents.

06

We can forget about bodmas n collect 'like signs'

What's the op waiting for after 16 pages on NL. The answer is 18. See how:
3+3*3-3+3
In maths, a bracket is introduced where you have the multiplication sign. So
(3+3)*3-3+3 = 6*3-3+3.
Let's introduce another bracket to have:
6*(3-3+3) =6*3 = 18.

Sleekydee:


yup.

thats simple bodmas na

abumeinben:

This is why u were not called for interview....smh

the answer is 6 using BODMAS. guess u'll b the one missing out on the interview

abumeinben:


This is why u were not called for interview....smh

dont mind him ... did he even see 6 in the options??

that's how Nigerians be creating problems that dont exist

thathruth:


the answer is 6 using BODMAS.
guess u'll b the one missing out on the interview

talk2riel:
(3+3)3-(3+3)=
(6)3-(6) =
18-6=12

genius

abat4real37:
the ans is 12

Ok, I concord.
-3+3=0
So left with 3+3*3 working with brackets, will be 3+(3*3) which gives 12.
Sorry for quoting you wrong earlier.

KBrown:
What's the op waiting for after 16 pages on NL. The answer is 18. See how:
3+3*3-3+3
In maths, a bracket is introduced where you have the multiplication sign. So
(3+3)*3-3+3 = 6*3-3+3.
Let's introduce another bracket to have:
6*(3-3+3) =6*3 = 18.

Introduce the brackets well to get 12.

[size=18pt]The answer is 18...QED!!![/size]

This is clearly solved using BODMAS.
For those introducing brackets, ensure it is done correctly such that when you expand d brackets, you arrive at the initial equation.
3 + 3 x 3 - 3 + 3 is the same as:
3 + (3 x 3) - (3 -3) = 12
Even by the time the whole brackets are removed and you are left with plus and minus, just collecting like terms I.e. moving all plus to one side followed by minus will still give you 12 as answer! QED

I know where the problem silvers got it wrong d challenge is -3+3=0 and 3+3*3=12

dearpreye:


Your arrogance annoys me to no end.

I just tire for all these people.

#Ignoramuses

Datanet:
your sisters error is - 3 + 3 = 6 she ignored the minus sigb before the -3.
that should be - 3 + 3 = 0.
show it to her again.. she will remember the rule with minus signs

Ok..I'm already mute.

sureguy02:


I just tire for all these people.

#Ignoramuses

It's required in education that once you meet a superior argument, you politely withdraw and get back to the basics.

How could a people be so wrong and yet so adamant?

How could someone who claimed to score an A1 in Mathematics even struggle to solve what's clearly a JSS3 1 maths problem?

We're in trouble.

dearpreye:


It's required in education that once you meet a superior argument, you politely withdraw and get back to the basics.

How could a people be so wrong and yet so adamant?

How could someone who claimed to score an A1 in Mathematics even struggle to solve what's clearly a JSS3 1 maths problem?

We're in trouble.

I wonder oooooooooooo.

I am sure New general Mathematics for Jss1 treats issues like this. I am not so sure they went to school after all. BODMAS or no BODMAS, how on earth could someone think -3+3 will be equal to 6 or -6. It beats my imagination.

I CAN SEE WHY PEOPLE FAILED, THEY SET THEIR OWN QUESTION, IS THERE BRACKET IN THE QUESTION THEY GAVE YOU? WHY CREATE YOUR OWN BRACKETS, EVEN SO WHAT RULE ARE YOU USING TO POSITION THE BRACKETS, I CAN SEE SOME PEOPLE USED THEIR UNDERSTANDING MATHEMATICS TEXTBOOK TO MAKE GUN.

The answer is 12 period. Start by multiplying 3x3=9 plus another 3+3=6 (15) then minus 3 from the 15 it will give you 12.

989900:


If the part in bold is correct, then there are new rules about basic BODMAS I don't know.

How do you treat/group addition and subtraction before multiplication?

Don't mind him, I thought he is a reasonable person...I asked him to solve an equation and he ran away

3+3*3-3+3 is same as saying 3+3^2-3+3, I don't know how he brought bracket in.
People that even say the answer is 6 have more mathematical knowledge than the OP

hapheeyxz:
3+3*3-3+3=12. why is it 12? now we introduce BODMAS and can only get the answer if we use it how it should be used.let's start now
B for bracket( )
O for of
D for division
M for multiplication
A for addition
S for subtraction.
from d equation we are concerned about> MAS
I.e we do d multiplication first so we have
3+9-3+3 which is 12-0 coz -3+3=0. so d answer is 12. for better understanding u can even rearrange before u subtract I.e 3+9+3-3.

some people were born to be teachers

the answer is 12! but I won't lie for a second I feared I had forgotten BODMAS

Kutunban:
3+3*3-3+3=0
(3+3)(3-3)+3=0
9-9+9-9+3=0
Or
(9-9)+(9-9)+3=0
0+0+3=3

you are becoming annoying.....what is the difference between that equation and 3+3^2-3+3??
You also need to work on your mathematics, how will you say the equation equal zero