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3/2/2016 7:41:38 PM
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I'm just simplifying the problems, m8.
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  • You're not, they've done tests on problems like these, they come out with two different answers. There was a reason PEMDAS was created or BODMAS so they could be distinguished, they both counter each other giving two different answers. Solve for (6/2)(1+3) and for 6/(2(1+3)) and you'll see two different answers

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  • Edited by aceebro: 3/2/2016 7:50:25 PM
    And when those parentheses [b]aren't present[/b], you follow PE|MD|AS| from left to right. [b]That's the point of the order of operations[/b]. And I am simplifying. (1+3) simplifies to 4, every time.

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  • It still has its parenthesis, remember you still have to first multiply anything multiplying to that parenthesis hence 2(3)=6

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  • M8

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  • Edited by aceebro: 3/2/2016 8:03:25 PM
    2(3) is just shorthand for 2*3. They are the same operation. The fact that the 3 is in parentheses does not change its priority.

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  • Can we just say we're both right, seriously

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  • No, because you are objectively wrong. That's the wonderful thing about math, there is objective truth.

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  • Whatever m8

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  • It kinda does if you follow the PEMDAS rule

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