“Nothing to brush up on. I’m right. Anybody that comes up with 288 is wrong. Thanks for the advice, though.”
Tell us why you’re right. FYI, if you are right, that means that Excel, Google, bc, and programs written in C, C#, PHP, JavaScript, and my HP50g are wrong. If you’re right it should be easy to explain.
Before you can ask, I’ll tell you why 288 is right. The order of operations is
Parens
Mult and Div (equal to each other)
Add and Subt (equal to each other)
Operators with equal precedence are evaluated from left to right.
48÷2(9+3) =
48÷2(12) = [Because operations inside parens are evaluated first]
24(12) = 288 [Because mult and div have equal precedence & evaluated L to R]
Where is the error in my work?
You forgot C++, Cobold, Fortran,
Pascal, Turbo Pascal. etc ;)
Bikk