[packman]

PEMDAS
(Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally)= (parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtaction.)This is the correct order of operations.

The answer is 2. I am 100 percent sure!!

[glennaro]

(Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally)= (parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtaction.)This is the correct order of operations

Not quite true, my friend. It's: "parenthesis, exponents, multiplication and division, ..." -- that is, multiplication and division are of the same rank.

[ThomasThomas]

It on the calculator as

48/2(9+3) or

48____
2(9+3)

= 2

[MortMan]

Please do a search on mathematical precedence. Multiplication and division have the same precedence, as do addition and subtraction. Their order of appearance is what determines the correct answer here - which is 288.