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Originally Posted by storymilo
I have a Texas Instruments too (a graphing one) and it gave me nine. Even our calculators are different...
I suppose if you were to look at the equation with all different orders in mind, it would be ambiguous. When you pick just one, it has a clearly defined answer. As it's presented, without any extra parentheses, the only way to solve it is to use an order of operations. So that's what I did.
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"pick one" is not a solution. If you have a equation x + y = 5, you can't just "pick a y" and then assume your answer for x is correct. You need more information, namely a value for y, or in the case of this thread, extra parentheses to define whether the * or the / should be done first.
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