I had fun with this in my classroom today. I had my 8th grade Algebra students work it. These are advanced students. Three answers came out of the problem. 288, 2, and 8 1/3. Hmmmmmm. My calculator, the TI 73, shows 288. I said in my post that it is 288 if you follow order of operations. (And I teach math. lol). I asked math teacher friends. They got 288. BUT if you look at it as a fraction bar for division it creates a whole different situation. Because fraction bars fall under the grouping symbols. If you use the fraction bar, the answer is 2. I have taught order of operations for years. Never had a problem stump me like this. I think it depends on how you write it. Fraction bar is 2 for sure. Urrrrrgghh this will end up driving me nuts!
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