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Originally Posted by DARISC
How do you guys who think it's 2 explain that the above eight calculators say it's 288?
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Garbage in, garbage out. The controversy is in how to interpret the problem, not how to do the arithmetic. If you interpret it one way, you get 288 whether you do it with a Cray or an abacus. Interpret it the other way and you get 2.
If you literally enter 48/2(9+3) in a TI 55II it returns the answer 4. (I have to use the division sign instead of the slash, but all other terms are given exactly as show in the order shown.) I wonder what your calculators return if you don't interpret the problem for them.