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    2 months ago

    The issue normally with these “trick” questions is the ambiguous nature of that division sign (not so much a problem here) or people not knowing to just go left to right when all operators are of the same priority. A common mistake is to think division is prioritised above multiplication, when it actually has the same priority. Someone should have included some parenthesis in PEDMAS aka. PE(DM)(AS) 😄

    • The issue normally with these “trick” questions

      There’s no “trick” - it’s a straight-out test of Maths knowledge.

      the ambiguous nature of that division sign

      Nothing ambiguous about it. The Term on the left divided by the Term on the right.

      A common mistake is to think division is prioritised above multiplication

      It’s not a mistake. You can do them in any order you want.

      when it actually has the same priority

      Which means you can do them in any order