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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  Back in the olden days we were taught to do the insides of parenthesis first, and then do what ever it takes to get rid of parenthesis. In other words, add 9+3 first and you still have parenthesis.
48÷2(12)
In order to get rid of that parenthesis you have to multiply, after you multiply, you can get rid of parenthesis and you have a problem that can be worked from left to right.
48 ÷ 24
Do they still teach that rule about parenthesis? |
LOL, I'm from the "olden days," too, and see it exactly the way that you do. Based on the way that I was taught, I know if I had come up with 288 as the answer when I was in school that it would have been marked wrong.