“Ambiguous. The precedence of division and the multiplication of the parenthsized (9+3) is the same, therefore both answers are valid.”
Nosir. Joe 6 has it correctly, but I doubt public education teaches students to think before using a calculator these days.
Please check your answer using more than the mnemonic. Search for “order of operations” to get the whole story.
Left-to-right, the answer is 288. ;-P
Uhm - no, it’s ambiguous. The order of the evaluation can be one of two ways depending on operator precedence. We’ve gotten two possible interpretations - that ALONE should be an indication that it’s ambiguous.
If it were written correctly - parens would have been used to disambiguate the results to guarantee a single possible interpretation.