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Originally Posted by lisaly  You are doing what's in the parenthesis first. Otherwise you'd be multiplying by 9 and then adding 3 afterwards. The parenthesis must come first. I showed this to my wonderful assistant, and we had fun with this, but we were too busy in our Resource Room working on and having our students take a two part Geometry proof test that took precedence. I love working with kids on Algebra, but Geometry is not fun for most of us. |
Lol, yes, I said do the insides of parenthesis first!