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Originally Posted by WarChild
What is making you do the multiplciation BEFORE division even though it comes afterwards when reading left to right?
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Because that's the way you do it, otherwise the equation would be written:
(48÷2)(9+3)=X
If we substitute the X for 2 and 48 for Y so the equation would read:
Y÷2(9+3)=2
Y÷24=2
Y=48
If X were 288 then:
Y÷2(9+3)=288
Y÷24=288
Y=6912 which we already know is incorrect.