[SoothingDave]

Again, using keyboard notation is obfuscating the equation.

See my post 649.

You admit that you are not reading the problem as given. Those of us who get 288 are. It's that simple.

We understand the "keyboard notation" and how it is parsed by computers and humans who understand the standard accepted order of operations.

Since you are doing some other problem, you should probably start a new thread to discuss the problem you are solving.

How many examples from math websites do you need to see in order to understand that the division operator does not make everything to its right a part of the denominator?

[Dead Corpse]

A few more apparently as not even the engineers at TI got it right according to you.

So keep trying sparky... Maybe one day someone will put an egg in your beer.