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Old 04-29-2011, 02:09 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by storymilo View Post
The answer is definitely nine. You can't just move parentheses about... they're in the equation for a reason.
I see you really read my post there. At no point did I say you could just move the parentheses around. The answer is ambiguous. The only way you can "solve" it is by using a convention, of which there are multiple, which this thread is clearly proving.
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