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To: grundle

I dropped this in WolframAlpha and it too gives the incorrect answer (to my knowledge) of 288.

Like others have stated, the sequence to solve is parenths, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction in that order - and by that the answer is 2. I sent a followup to WolframAlpha for their explanation.

209 posted on 04/12/2011 3:15:16 PM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)

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To: brityank

Multiplication and division are of equal precedence - left-to-right order of appearance dictates between them, absent any parenthesis.

The same for addition and subtraction.

221 posted on 04/12/2011 3:25:16 PM PDT by MortMan (What disease did cured ham used to have?)

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