<p>What's the answer to this question?</p>
<p>two 10 char</p>
<p>In general, it’s an ambiguous mathematical expression (it’s not a question).</p>
<p>To be honest, I’d be inclined to say the answer is 288. I think that’s what you would get if you plugged this in to a scientific calculator. But it could also be interpreted as 2, and I think that’s what you would get if you plugged this into WolframAlpha.</p>
<p>48/2(9+3)= 48/2(12)=24*12=288</p>
<p>just use PEMDAS</p>
<p>Oh ambiguity…</p>
<p>48/24 = 2</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>24*12 = 288 </p>
<p>Google and Wolfram Alpha give 288</p>
<p>[2, 288]</p>
<p>(Yes, I realize that I can’t do this.)</p>
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<p>Just checked and both actually say 288.</p>
<p>You really have to do the division first, since it’s on the left.</p>
<p>^btw, if you’re trying to say that the solution set is both, you would use braces (i.e. {2, 288}). As it is, you have the (presumably real) closed interval from 2 to 288.</p>
<p>It is clearly 145</p>
<p>It’s 288. . . . . . .</p>
<p>There aren’t two answers.
The answer is 288. It’s called the order of operations, you learned it in 7th grade.
- Parentheses
- Multiplication or division (Left to right)
- Addition</p>
<p>You didn’t learn that til 7th grade?</p>
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Yeah, well, I’m not a math guy.</p>
<p>I learned it in 5th, notice “you”</p>
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What about that other thing, the one with the little dash between two numbers?</p>
<p>That’s division.</p>
<p>I got 561008</p>
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Um, I think that’s called “undergrip” or something. Maybe lolk1lol will enlighten us as to how it fits in this “process.” I can’t wait!</p>