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document.write( "Previous tutor said it equals -14. The book and calculator says the answer is 0. Help needed. 12+8 radical 81 divided by (-6)\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I know this probably isn't much help but I'm going to explain it as best as I can.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "1.) Depending on how you enter the equation into your calculator it can effect the answer.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I used the following:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "and got 0 as my answer.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "***However, when I used <b>parenthesis</b> like this:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I got -14\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "2.) If we were to do the calculations just one by one this is what I would do.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "= -14\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "3.) As you can see I got -14 too. Perhaps the book has a typo... \r<BR>\n" );
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