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    Poll: What is the answer to 48/2(9+3)?

    On my side, Casio FX-83MS, S-V.P.A.M. Found the reason: For my particular model, according to the user manual, operations of equal prescedence are calculated RIGHT to LEFT, not the more common LEFT to RIGHT. Although it still doesn't quite explain why it gets a different answer for one, and...
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    Poll: What is the answer to 48/2(9+3)?

    No errors were made during entry, double checked it across the dual line display. I could get photos, but that would be a pain. On my side, Casio FX-83MS, S-V.P.A.M.
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    Poll: What is the answer to 48/2(9+3)?

    Now: Question for you. When entering the problem into my calculator, with the multiplication added in, so 48/2*(9+3), it returns the answer 288. However: When entering the equation 48/2(9+3) into the SAME CALCULATOR, it returns the answer 2. By removing the multiplication sign from the...
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    Poll: What is the answer to 48/2(9+3)?

    The software I find to hand on the interwebs, re-parses the equation, and actually calculates a different one to what is asked. A sci calculator, should calculate it, exactly as inputted. Mine, for instance gave the answer of 2. Despite, inputting the same equation into various other software...
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    Poll: What is the answer to 48/2(9+3)?

    Casio fx-83MS gives the answer as 2, when inputting exactly as the title does. At least where I am, multiplication is given a higher priority for calculation than division is, to 2*(9+3) would be calculated first, which does indeed give the answer 2. Methods of teaching the priority order may...