Okay, go ahead and use the parentheses. You would say: “Forty-Eight divided by two times open-parentheses twelve close parentheses equals?.”
I guess you are claiming that any number attached to the immediate outside of a parentheses with a multiplier or divisor is done before all other multipliers or divisors. Is that what you're stating? What exactly is that rule called? It's not the P in PEMDA because that's for components inside the parentheses.
Yes. That is what I am saying.
PEMDAS (parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction)are the order of operations.
I feel like I am a pro at it. We have four kids and I have helped all four of them with this.