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Originally Posted by moeloubani
I also studied mathematics at a university level and the answer is actually 288.
Unless you decide you want to change BEDMAS around and go right to left or unless you want to argue that 2(9+3) isn't equal to 2(12) in which case the bracket can be dropped and made into 2*12.
48/2*12 = 288
Don't know why you would do 2(9+3) first.
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Go 1 step further. 2*12 = 24.
48/24 = 2
You don't reduce a term to an expression with a free variable (function *) in them.
You reduce them as far as possible.