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Originally Posted by jdlowery View Post
I'm joining this thread late but there's a certain order to which you perform the calculations. The order is operations in parenthesis then, multiply, divide, add, subtract. That's how I get 2.
But multiplication and division have the same priority. So then what?!? (order of operations then say if you have equal priority operands, you go left to right).

Also - if you re-write "divided by two" as "multiplied by 0.5" is is the same thing....

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