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I was taught to handle parenthesis first before multiplication or division so the answer is clear to me to be 1.
by braum 14y ago
I was taught to handle parenthesis first before multiplication or division so the answer is clear to me to be 1.
- robryan 14y agoYou handle the contents of the parenthesis first. 2(3) is just shorthand for 2*3 so you would handle the division and multiplication in the order given.
- andrewmunsell 14y agoWell, is the implied multiplication technically part of the parenthesis, though? I've always been taught the stuff inside the parenthesis takes precedence, but outside is irrelevant because it's not technically "part" of the parenthesis statement. It's like how programming works: 6 / 2 * add(1, 2) This would obviously evaluate to 9, because the "add" function would simply return a value and the rest of the statement would be evaluated from left to right. In this case, the first 2 is not related to the "add" function in any way.