# 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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### Author: ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/179 "2011-04-14T00:28:37Z")

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There will be no lock, if you don’t like math stay out.

> [@GM Volt delay](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gm-volt-delay/41232/8):
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> actually if you distirbuted out the 3 from (9+3) it would be as follows:
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> 48/2\*3(3+1)
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> 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.
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> 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.

No because in your own example if it’s

48/2\*3(3+1)

It becomes 72(3+1) going left to right

So you’re proving yourself wrong by saying that 3 will be assigned to the parenthesis and don’t out of order of left to right, but somehow that 2 isn’t assigned???

It doesn’t matter what sign is in front, the rule is the rule, distributive property states that it’s equivalent of (18+6) with 2 factored out making it (9+3) and two sitting outside.

That’s why it can be written as 48/(9+3)2 and still be right.

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