# 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 14, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/48-2-9-3/257862/252 "2011-04-14T21:35:29Z")

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> [@Wegman's is trend setting](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wegmans-is-trend-setting/41265/26):
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> Some more if you still have some fight in you
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> [How does the order of operations work (examples)? | Purplemath](http://www.purplemath.com/modules/orderops2.htm)
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> 2\*12 = two times twelve
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> 2(12) = two sets of twelve.
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> They are NOT the same thing
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> By NOT writing the “\*” between 2 and parenthesis it’s implying the distributive property

Even your link says there isn’t a rule and to be very explicit with your parentheses as to not confuse anyone. So instead of bringing up links that partially agree and then try to say your way is fact why not admit that its all in how you look at it, and that the question is very flawed in its mere existence.

I already said this on page one, and further repeated i think it should be a rule but isn’t! Some calculators put implied multiplication(ie 2(3+1), 2x etc.) aka juxtaposition ahead of explicit multiplication(ie 2\*(9+1), not because it is a rule, but rather because it is the way many people naturally mean to write the equation. It is merely an assumption and like many say should and would never be used in any actual math application.

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