UltimateUnknown on 29 July 2012
| IIIIITHE1IIIII said: I think they should have written: 48/(2(3+9)) if they wanted to make sure that the answer is 2. |
Yes exactly, as someone who does physics at university we have to pretty much fill our entire equation with brackets to avoid problems like these. They should have put another bracket infront of the 2 like you did if they wanted the final answer to be 2.
If you use sofware packages like excel, you have to put the brackets in to get 2. In fact I put the exact equation into excel right now and it gives 288. Of course you could argue the programmers made it use the order we are using, but I think this is the norm, at least where I am from anyway.
