document.write( "Question 334587: I don't understand this expression;\r
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document.write( "Answer (4×3)×2\r\n" );
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document.write( "When you write a \"4\" and an \"s\" right next to it on the right, getting 4s,\r\n" );
document.write( "they ARE multiplied.\r\n" );
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document.write( "However, when you write a 4 and a 3 right next to it on the right, getting 43, \r\n" );
document.write( "they are NOT multiplied and you get \"forty-three\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "My teacher (years and years ago) used to say this little rhyme:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"Side-by-side means multiplied\" \r\n" );
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document.write( "But you have hit on an exception to that little rhyme rule.  When two digits\r\n" );
document.write( "are side by side they are NOT multiplied!\r\n" );
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document.write( "But when a digit and a letter are side-by-side, they ARE multiplied.\r\n" );
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