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Originally Posted by winders View Post
There is a convention that says you do implicit multiplication before division. Based on that convention, you get:

48÷2(9+3) = n

48÷2(12) = n

48÷24 = n

n = 2

There is no implcit multiplication, the parenthesis does not include the multiplication

it only influences what is inside the ( ) not what is outside of it.


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