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Old 07-27-2017, 09:25 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by SynergyGreenSS View Post
I'm thinking it's 6 because of pemdas. Parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction. So you do multiplication first: 2 x 3 = 6. Then you do division: 36/6=6
But the parenthesis used here aren't to indicate order of operations, it's there to indicate multiplication.

If it was 36/(2+3) then it'd be a different story.
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