[spunkets]

Only in your imagination.

[Dead Corpse]

If you re-wrote the equation (48/2)(9+3), I'd have no argument. As it is, even if the value of (9+3) were replaced with x, you'd still have 2(x) as your variable instead of 24x. Since 2x is the term you'd have to write it as 48*1/2*1/x to get it to make sense.