Question

what does B E D M A S stand for?

Answer 1

its BODMAS not BEDMAS

Answer 2

someone told me on here its bedmas

Answer 3

All forms of this abbreviation are described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations

In Canada its usually called BEDMAS

Answer 4

B-Brackets
O-Of
D-Division
M-Multiplication
A-Addition
S-Subtraction.

Answer 5

PEMDAS
BODMAS
BEDMAS
PEDMAS

So many *facepalm*
These are order of operations btw

Answer 6

An extract from that web page:

Mnemonics are often used to help students remember the rules, but the rules taught by the use of acronyms can be misleading. In the United States the acronym PEMDAS is common. It stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. PEMDAS is often expanded to "Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally" with the first letter of each word creating the acronym PEMDAS. Canada uses BEDMAS and the UK uses BIDMAS or BODMAS. In Canada and other English speaking countries, Parentheses may be called Brackets, or symbols of inclusion and Exponentiation may be called either Indices, Powers or Orders, which have the same precedence as Roots or Radicals. Since multiplication and division are of equal precedence, M and D are often interchanged, leading to such acronyms as BEDMAS, BIDMAS, BODMAS, BERDMAS, PERDMAS, and BPODMAS.

Answer 7

you see its just a shortcut to remember higher priority math operations

Bracket Of Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction

so if u get sthng like 3*2+1 you must first multiply 3 and 2 and then add the sum to 1

Answer 8

so when expanding and simplifying i would use bodmas?

Answer 9

yep

Answer 10

look at my example above

Answer 11

gt it?

Answer 12

I prefer PEMDAS because it has the 'exponent' thing too.

Answer 13

what is that?

Answer 14

@ParthKohli dont confuse her lols

Answer 15

P Parentheses
E Exponent
M Multiplication
D Division
A Addition
S Subtraction

Answer 16

OMG

Answer 17

dw use any according to your preference :)

Answer 18

I'm from Canada so that's why I said BEDMAS
Brackets Exponents Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction

Answer 19

im confused now, i just need to know what method to use during expand and simplify and how to use it and how to knowwhat to do

Answer 20

9a+3(8-2a) this is the equation

Answer 21

Any method of Order of Operations. They're basically all the same