document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=784174>Question 784174</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Hi my daughter and I are having a problem solving one of her pre-algebra questions.  We both come up with different answers, but I may be messing up the order of operation.  Could you show us how it is supposed to be completed?  <BR>\n" );
document.write( "18 / 2 x (-3) x (-4+6).   I get -1.5 but she gets something entirely different.  Thank you! </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Just the way it is written, you have -54, but if everything to the right of the \"/\" is actually in the denominator, then -1.5 is correct.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "What you actually are communicating:  <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE\  \frac{18}{2}\ \times\ (-3)\ \times\ (-4\ +\ 6)\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "What I think you really mean:  <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE\  \frac{18}{2\ \times\ (-3)\ \times\ (-4\ +\ 6)}\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "How to communicate what I think you really mean:  18 / [2 * (-3) * (-4+6)]\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi}\ +\ 1\ =\ 0\"><BR>\n" );
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document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it<BR>\n" );
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