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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine
I still say that it's ambiguous due to the lack of a standard convention, and that it requires an extra set of parentheses to be exact in the order of evaluation, but hey, there's not much point in beating my head against a brick wall, people can easily read my previous posts in the thread :P
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There's no lack of one, just misunderstanding in this thread. Math is hard facts, not multiple answers.
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Originally Posted by TheBig3
Where would you multiply 6 by 3? I got 1, and I'm not seeing your logic.
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What canwll said, basically the problem wouldn't involve multiplying the denominator unless there were some sort of parenthesis to contain the 3 in the denominator and not the the numerator. Otherwise, the 3 is looked at as a whole separate number. As canwll showed, it's 3, not 1/3.
(6/2)*(1+2)=9 or (6/2)*3=9...........18/2=9.............9=9
6/(2*(1+2))=1 or (6/2)*(1/(1+2))=1.........6/(2*3)=1...........6/6=1
There's only one answer and it's 9. Without the parenthesis, at least.
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