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Old 11-08-2011, 04:39 PM  
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The orders of operation are missing from the expression so if you take it at face value, then 40 + 40 x 0 + 1 = 1. This is the correct answer when expressed in this way. Geeze.

If you express it as (40 + 40) x (0 + 1) then the answer is 80

If you express it as 40 + (40 x 0) + 1 then the answer is 41

etc.
if you added numbers, you could get even more results!

50 order of operations
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