Last night they asked 5 + 5 x 5 = a) 30, b) 40 or c) 50
The first caller said c) 50 and they said wrong, The next said a) 30 and got the money.
5 + 5 is 10 and 10 times 5 is 50 so the first answer was right .
5 + (5 x 5) = 30 Not 5 + 5 x 5. It is unethical and I reckon fraudulant am I right?
2006-11-25 11:35:47 · 13 answers · asked by "Call me Dave" 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
I'm so glad someone's brought this up. These quiz shows are the biggest con ever! The questions are worded in such a way that there are dozens and dozens of 'technically correct' answers, from which the producers may (or may not) decide to use.
They don't always get away with their antics, however. Check how many complaints this type of shows gets over at Ofcom's website. You'll find them in 'Broadcasting TV' then 'Broadcasting Bulletins'
2006-11-25 11:44:51 · answer #1 · answered by Billy 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The question bears no resemblance to the answer, the 'answer' is any old number but it's in an envelope and if you are luckily enough to guess it then you win (no chance really of doing it when you think of all the numbers). The same with a program I watched when people had to guess the missing word ...?..Star and people were ringing in saying Pop Star or Shooting Star, Lucky Star etc etc but in the end the answer was Caravan!!!, hence nothing really to do with the question. I think they have found a loophole in the quiz show rules and they must be making a mint because they're running that all night instead of the Celebs in the Jungle.
2006-11-26 03:25:20 · answer #2 · answered by georgeygirl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I too have watched this earlier and questioned an analogous. you may think of that the respond to that's 220 yet I wager somebody phoned in and suggested that and that they suggested it replaced into the incorrect answer. this might then carry approximately others phoning in with any random variety, all of which would be incorrect, all of whom are paying approximately £3 hundred a minute or some thing to respond to. i presently observed an editorial in a newspaper approximately some human beings spending £500 a night calling into the programme and at the instant are transforming into addicted. curiously, you may enter for loose via a internet site that's some thing that they could supply by making use of regulation yet they by no potential publicise this. that's commonly shown in very tiny print temporarily a pair of cases by way of the tutor. no longer that I sit down and watch it for all time, of direction.
2016-12-13 14:13:55 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the know that a good majority of the country are hammered so they won't remember pretty much anything about the phone call they made to it...till the bill comes
And no, 50 is not the right answer - it is 30.
Look at it at 5 + (25). you only multiply the no.s in the bracket then add the five
2006-11-25 11:37:22 · answer #4 · answered by Showaddywaddy 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, it's completely unethical and an absolute disgrace. It's a big legal loophole. They use ambigious mathematics to con people. (Like the previous poster said, the brackets should come first.)
They may make a bit of money in the short term but they are cheapening the ITV brand long term by doing it. Can you imagine the BBC doing something like that? No.
ITV need to start concentrating on making decent TV programmes. Then poeple will start watching them and eventually they will rebuild their advertising streams.
Have just read today that they have knocked 'Love Island' on the head. That's a start.
2006-11-25 11:44:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Its called BOD-MAS... Didn't you listen in school :o)
I'm ashamed of ITV Play, and I work for the company!
Its a money grabbing scam. People on low incomes get robbed when the get addicted. Unethical and unnecessary.
2006-11-25 11:45:53 · answer #6 · answered by Nathan 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is always a trick with their answers you may find it is a four figure number if you see them reveal it, I have watched several of their quizs and can never work the answer out to the question asked.
2006-11-25 11:40:03 · answer #7 · answered by Kirks Folley 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
30 is correct.
Always do multiply first so 5*5=25
plus 5 is 30....
2006-11-25 11:39:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They meant 5+(5x5) = 30.
2006-11-25 11:41:08 · answer #9 · answered by Polo 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You are wrong...
The order the math should be done is:
Brackets...
Exponets...
Mutiplication/Division...
Addition/Subtraction...
so the 5 x 5 should be done before the 5 + 5...
2006-11-25 11:38:51 · answer #10 · answered by HONORARIUS 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋