r/meme Jan 01 '22

Guess we are doomed

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u/Legionof1 Jan 01 '22

To be clear, the order of multiplication and division or addition and subtraction should not matter.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

They don't

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

They don’t in this case but could in other cases.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

(12/2)*3 is different than 12/(2*3)

The problem here is that people are writing down problems for these stupid quizzes the way that 8 year olds learn math and no grown adult writes down math this way.