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Originally Posted by Phoenix
its 2
trust me
you can prove it to yourself
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The question is written amigously, period. There's no PROOF you can offer to change that.
The standard would be to always use parentheses where a statement is ambiguous without special rules.
If you were looking for the answer 2, shouldn't the question really be written as
48/[2(9+3)] = ?
OR
48
------- = ?
2(9+3)
So yes, it's a pretty clever troll to write an ambigious statement and then argue about the results. However, it will never be a wrong answer to apply the standard order of operations to this equation.