Thread: Ummm

According to my graphing calculator the answer is 288, so...

I'm pretty sure that calculators (and computers) will just do it from left to right when the precedence is the same. If it sees 48/2 and then something after the 2, it will assume what's after isn't in the denominator anymore, unless there are brackets like 48/(2*12).

EDIT: I didn't see the second page of this before typing all of that above until now.

So yay, Xei has come to the rescue, and said exactly what I did at first. But no one listened to me.

I did find a website teaching grade school math in which a 2 / 3 * 5 type of question was brought up, and in the example they said to do division first. So maybe it is still a technical rule for grade-school math, when it's written otherwise ambiguously.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

So yay, Xei has come to the rescue, and said exactly what I did at first. But no one listened to me.

dw, I listened to you too. And I was just about to say that you said it already until I saw this post lol
I also said a similar thing on the other page too, that it's nonsensical if it's not applied to something. As it could really be done any way.
Although I'm not sure how good my last post's argument was at showing it can only be done one way.