To: Dead Corpse
No. It's 2*12. Unless you want to add in a set of parentheses to isolate the term.
The original equation is: 48÷2(9+3)
So, since you say 2(9+3)= 2*12, what is 48÷2*12? 288.
To: grateful
Of things pertaining to the obelus, solidus and even the close parenthesis and vinculum, see the discussion in The (ahem)
Straight Dope.
657 posted on
04/14/2011 7:40:31 PM PDT by
re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
To: grateful
Re-write it as 48*1/2*1/12 and do the math again. 2(12) is the number 48 is being divided by. If the equation was written 48/2x, would we still be arguing about this?
Scratch that, this is the Internet.... We have nothing else to do.
660 posted on
04/15/2011 4:15:48 AM PDT by
Dead Corpse
(explosive bolts, ten thousand volts at a million miles an hour)
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