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« on: March 27, 2014, 07:33:45 AM »

1 by the rules I was taught (multiplication and division in order from left to right).

Which gives 9 here, not 1.

6 ÷ 2 (1 + 2) =
6 ÷ 2 (3) =
3 (3) =
9

Now if you do multiplications before you do divisions, you get 1, but that's not the usual PEMDAS order of operations.

This is the way I was taught. Anything within the parentheses first, then division/multiplication from left to right.
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