[Dust in the Wind]

I don't understand how all of you who are changing a division symbol to a modern calculator slash symbol are thinking. It was NOT written with a slash it WAS written with a division symbol which separates the problem into what is before the symbol and what is after the symbol. Do all the math on either side of the symbol AND THEN do the division.

The answer IS 2 and you will never convince me otherwise.

Just a dumb old man here...

[SoothingDave]

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algebra/Order_of_Operations

These are the rules. Can you find this rule of yours:

“Do all the math on either side of the symbol AND THEN do the division.”

[CharacterCounts]

The answer IS 2 and you will never convince me otherwise.

See my post at 368