document.write( "Question 165710: Is there any reason why my question is going ignored.\r
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document.write( "It's because we are not sure of the way it's written in your\r\n" );
document.write( "book or worksheet, and we don't want to guess and guess it\r\n" );
document.write( "wrong.\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"+matrix%281%2C7%2C+1%2F2%2C%22%F7%22%2C+3%2F8%2C+%22%2B%22%2C+5%2C+%22%D7%22%2C+1%2F3%29++\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "If it's written this way in your book or worksheet, then the\r\n" );
document.write( "operation that is given the highest priority here, since there\r\n" );
document.write( "are no parentheses or exponents, is multiplication or division\r\n" );
document.write( "going left to right:\r\n" );
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document.write( "We do the \"+matrix%281%2C3%2C+1%2F2%2C%22%F7%22%2C+3%2F8%29\" first\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then we replace the \"+matrix%281%2C3%2C+1%2F2%2C%22%F7%22%2C+3%2F8%29\" by \"4%2F3\".\r\n" );
document.write( "So far we have:\r\n" );
document.write( "\"+matrix%281%2C5%2C+4%2F3%2C%22%2B%22%2C+5%2C+%22%D7%22%2C+1%2F3%29++\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now the operation that is given the highest priority here is the\r\n" );
document.write( "multiplication or division going left to right.  So,\r\n" );
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document.write( "We do the \"+matrix%281%2C3%2C+5%2C%22%D7%22%2C+1%2F3%29\" first\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then we replace the \"+matrix%281%2C3%2C+5%2C%22%D7%22%2C+1%2F3%29\" by \"5%2F3\".\r\n" );
document.write( "So far we have:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"+matrix%281%2C3%2C+4%2F3%2C%22%2B%22%2C+5%2F3%29++\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "and since the denominators are the same, we can just add the\r\n" );
document.write( "numerators and get\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"9%2F3\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "which reduces to just\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"3\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "However, you may have meant this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then we'd do what's in the parentheses first.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now the operation that is given the highest priority here is the\r\n" );
document.write( "multiplication or division going left to right.  So,\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then within the parentheses, we'd do the \"+matrix%281%2C3%2C+5%2C%22%D7%22%2C+1%2F3%29\" \r\n" );
document.write( "first:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then we replace the \"+matrix%281%2C3%2C+5%2C%22%D7%22%2C+1%2F3%29\" by \"5%2F3\".\r\n" );
document.write( "So far we have:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then, still working inside the parentheses, we'd have to get\r\n" );
document.write( "a LCD of 24, changing \"3%2F8\" to \"9%2F24\" and \"5%2F3\" to\r\n" );
document.write( "\"40%2F24\" and we'd have this within the parentheses:\r\n" );
document.write( "         \"matrix%281%2C3%2C9%2F24%2C%22%2B%22%2C40%2F24%29\"\r\n" );
document.write( "         \"9%2F24%2B40%2F24=49%2F24\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "and we'd replace the \"%28+matrix%281%2C3%2C3%2F8%2C%22%2B%22%2C5%2F3%29+%29\" by \"49%2F24\"    \r\n" );
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document.write( "So we'd have this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"+matrix%281%2C3%2C1%2F2%2C%22%F7%22%2C+49%2F24%29++\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "And finally we'd invert the second fraction and change the\r\n" );
document.write( "division to a multiplication:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"+matrix%281%2C3%2C1%2F2%2C%22%D7%22%2C+24%2F49%29++\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then finally\r\n" );
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document.write( "So since nobody could tell which of those you meant, nobody\r\n" );
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