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not to be That Guy, but the phone is actually correct... multiplication and division have the same precedence, so
8 / 2 * 4should give the same result as8 * 4 / 2, ie 16No, it's actually wrong.
It's 8/(2x4). You can't remove brackets unless there is only 1 term left inside.