re: Bizarre Math Question and Answer breaks the internet - Sorry if already posted

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Yeah. I mean I think we can all agree that it could have been written to leave out any room to interpet it different. My point has been as written it comes to 288. My problem with the answer 2 is to come to that answer either you have to make an assumption of implied parantheses--which is defensible--or you misapply the order of operations--which is not defensible.

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I don't completely agree, because the way it is written isn't exactly defined, so it can be solved 2 ways and if you went RtoL, it's an all together different equation.

I asked my old calculus teacher his thoughts on it, and he said: "48/2(9+3) is ambiguous. one should write it either as (48/2)(9+3) or 48/(2(9+3)). "