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Originally Posted by masraum
Right, but according to the other guy.....
1. Exponents
2. Stuff inside parentheses
3. Stuff right next to but outside parentheses
4. Multiplication from left to right except the stuff in rule 3 that's stuck to the outside of the parentheses
5. Addition
According to him (not me)...
48÷2(12)-->48÷24=2
What I find so surprising is that the ratio in the poll keeps going farther and farther towards the wrong answer.
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there are certainly a lot of students and ex students that are/were mediocre at best in math
to force the x before the ÷ in the above it would have to be in parenthesis
48 ÷ (2(12))
similarly
48 / 2 x 12 is not the same as 48 / (2 x 12)