[SeaHawkFan]

Here is the problem as copied and pasted from the title of the thread:

48÷2(9+3) = ?

It is not 48 divided by two times (9+3)

There is a huge difference.

[RBranha]

“48÷2(9+3) = ?

It is not 48 divided by two times (9+3)”

The correct order of operations is the same no matter how you pronounce the problem in English.

48/2(9+3) = 48/2(12) = 48/2*12 = 24*12 = 288

[spunkets]

"Here is the problem as copied and pasted from the title of the thread: 48÷2(9+3) = ?

48÷2*(9+3) = 48/2*(a+b)= (48*9)/2+(48*3)/2 = 48*(1/2)*(12) = 12*48*0.5

"It is not 48 divided by two times (9+3)

Yes it is. Otherwise it would be written: 48/(2(9+3)) = 48/(2*12) =48÷(2*12)

"There is a huge difference."

When you insert parenthesis that were never in the original equation; of course there is! You just changed the meaning of the equation by doing so.

[CAluvdubya]

It is not 48 divided by two times (9+3)

Yes it is......order of operations requires that since multiplication and division are equal in terms of solving, you work the problem left to right.

Parenthesis is first (9+3=12)...then, working the problem left to right is 48/2 = 24. THEN 24x12 = 288.

[CharacterCounts]

Just change the Obelus (÷)

to a Vinculum (_____)

and the correct answer becomes obvious

        48      
  2(9 + 3)