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Yeah, right answer but wrong reason. There's no such thing as implicit multiplication.
Correct, and that's because of Terms - 8÷2(2+2) is 2 terms, with the (2+2) in the denominator, but 8÷2×(2+2) is 3 terms, with the (2+2) in the numerator... hence why people get the wrong answer when they add an extra multiply in.
Right, because it's not "multiplication" at all (only applies literally to multiplication signs), it's a coefficient of a bracketed term, which means we have to apply The Distributive Law as part of solving Brackets.
Yeah, the actual rule is Left associativity, and going left to right is the easy way to obey that.
Lol only tool 30 years to get thos far on basics.
Just proves, never too late to learn :-)
Thanks for the effort!
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