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Old 12-04-2011, 08:55 PM   #11
EmxATW5m

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I also got 2 as my answer. I also seem to remember also being taught in school that when you've got a number next to the parenthesis (indicating multiplication) you do that multiplication first before the left to right rule.

I showed it to my friend who is in Calc II and he even came up with 2 at first, until he said it kind of depends on how you read it. He said it's a pretty poor way of the equation being written in the first place. He also said that Casio's suck.

EDIT: For clarification, I read the equation as 48 / 2( 9 + 3 ) and not 48 / 2 ( 9 + 3 ).
2 ( 9 + 3 ), 2( 9 + 3 ) - it's irrelevant - at least last time I checked for example order of operations (algebra) there was no mentions whatsoever that multiplication next to parenthesis should somehow be calculated before other multiplications.
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