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To: Dead Corpse

"Using this logic, it'd be 48*1/2*1/12. Or 2. You would add the original 9+3, but is still in the denominator making it's absolute value 1/12."

No, the division operator only effects the number immediately folling it. No operator extends beyond the number it precedes.

620 posted on 04/14/2011 10:21:41 AM PDT by spunkets

To: spunkets

The 2 isn’t a 2. Or even a 1/2. It is (2*12). Or... 1/2*1/12. 1/24*48/1=2.

622 posted on 04/14/2011 10:25:19 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)

To: spunkets

Yet another way to prove this is to distribute the 2 into the 9 and 3. Hence, 48/(18+6) if you remove the factor of 2. This resolves to 48/24. Or 2.

623 posted on 04/14/2011 10:29:05 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)

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