48÷2(9+3) = ???
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kindablack
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What have changed your mind?
dotc0m
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"The problem isn’t the mathematical operations. It’s knowing what operations the author of the problem wants you to do, and in what order. Simple, right? * This handy acronym should settle any debate—except it doesn’t, because it’s not a rule at all. It’s a convention, a customary way of doing things we’ve developed only recently, and like other customs, it has evolved over time. (And even math teachers argue over order of operations.)" - Excerpt from some blog.
starkstephen
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288 is the right answer.
1Enigma
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I'm actually taking Algebra right now. So I had someone else break it down.
kindablack
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Hey, Khan Academy has a video about the issue 
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ma...stuff/v/re-visual-multiplication-and-48-2-9-3
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ma...stuff/v/re-visual-multiplication-and-48-2-9-3