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To: grundle

Consulted my Presidential Award winning Calculus teacher wife. Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. Multiplication before Division.

Answer is 2. TI has a problem. She buys molto calculators from them and is now on the warpath.

547 posted on 04/13/2011 10:16:03 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)

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To: RinaseaofDs

You teacher wife needs to go back for a refresher. Multiplication and division have the same priority.

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

548 posted on 04/13/2011 10:17:33 AM PDT by SoothingDave

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