• TheKingBee@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    The operational order is fucked, the way I rewrote is more readable, even if you remember the order. The only reason you’d write the equation like that is to be mean, there’s no reason to write it like that unless you’re trying to trip people up.

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      8 hours ago

      You got it wrong on your first try, didn’t you? Lol, it’s not “mean” to write a math problem. The whole point of memorizing the order of operations is so that you can solve it no matter what order the equation is written in. No one wrote this problem on purpose just to make you fail to understand it, that’s dumb.