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What is 48รท2(9+3)?
6/2*(1+2) is 1 or 9?
order of operations division
Apparently a very simple question but My question basically is, whether the answer of the following equation is 9 or 1?
6 / 2 ( 1 + 2 )
Or put another way, do we divide first or multiply first? From a computer programming language perspective, we would solve this either left to right or right to left but I want to know the mathematical answer.
My thinking: There is not enough information in the question to solve this.
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$\begingroup$Little elaborate your question 6/2*(1+2) ok
We have a formula to execute expressions is BODMAS which stands for
Bracket Of Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction
and hense your solution as follows:
6/2*(1+2)
6/2*(3)
3*(3)
9
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