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Originally Posted by Bill Verburg
another thing you don't understand
'There is a convention that says you do implicit multiplication before division'
is a rule only in your world, it is not a convention recognized anywhere else except in the minds of others that don't understand math.
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Again, the American Mathematical Society (AMS) says "...multiplication indicated by juxtaposition is carried out before division." Conventions are not laws. They are rules that make reading equations
more universal. But conventions are not perfect nor are the always consistent with one another.
So, depending on whose convention(s) you are following, equations like "48÷2(9+3)" can have differing results. That's why this is an ambiguous equation and should be written with more clarity.
Scott