# 48÷2(9+3)=?

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**Created:** [April 12, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862 "2011-04-12T21:21:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/174 "2011-04-13T22:05:32Z")

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> [@Salvia Divinorum ?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/salvia-divinorum/32509/41):
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> Because that’s how it works.
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> It’s NOT THE SAME as having a multiplication sign between them
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> His could also be written as
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> 48/6(3+1)
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> I’ll quote this again, as you dont get it
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> Ill also copy this from math.edu
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> Link works Better than quote
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> [http://www.math.unt.edu/mathlab/emathlab/distributive\_property\_of\_multipl.htm](http://www.math.unt.edu/mathlab/emathlab/distributive_property_of_multipl.htm)

actually if you distirbuted out the 3 from (9+3) it would be as follows:

48/2\*3(3+1)

you cant just multiply 2\*3 and ignore the order of operations which just goes to show you cant just distribute whenever you want and move stuff around. Everyone is so used to there being a + sign in front of where the 2 is and distribute first.

I’ll also add i think the answer **should be** 2, based on my belief that there **should be** a rule that implied multiplication should come before explicit. B **ut there isn’t** a rule and I don’t like how you are going on about how your Russian education far exceeded your american one, and how you refuse to see where you may be wrong in some way.

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