This math problem has been circulating on many international forums lately, as users battled it out over whether the correct answer was ‘2′ or ‘288′.
The star confidently expressed through her me2day, “A lot of people have asked me through personal messages what the answer to 48÷2(9+3) is. The answer is 2!”
After she revealed her answer, Korean netizens began debating over whether or not her answer was correct.
To explain how Kwak Hyun Hwa got ‘2′ for her answer, she first solved the figures in the parentheses, then multiplied the sum by 2. The resulting number of 24 she used to divide 48, and ended up with the final answer of 2.
Other netizens took a different route by following the mathematical rule of PEMDAS strictly. They solved the parentheses, then divided 48 by 2, which yielded 24. They they multiplied 24 by 12, which gave the final answer of 288.
Wonder Girls’ Sunmi also tweeted about the above equation, “I thought it was 2, but some ppl said this and that about there needing to be a square bracket for the answer to be 2.. Hmm, is the answer 288… A smart person I know said it was 2..”
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