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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

PEMDAS is actually (PE)(MD)(AS). Those that are grouped together have equal precedence and are evaluated left to right.

8 / 2 * (2+2)

8 / 2 * 4

4 * 4

Edit to fix formatting, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

8 / 2 * (2+2)

When you added the multiply you changed the answer, because the (2+2) is now in the numerator instead of in the denominator.