document.write( "Question 983781: What is -9/7m*-9/7n \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #604570 by josgarithmetic(39631)\"\" \"About 
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Truthfully, -9/7m*-9/7n is ambiguous.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "No groupings shown; two operation symbols directly neighboring; you might really mean this:
\n" ); document.write( "-9/7m*(-9)/7n\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Using order of operations for multiplications and divisions going strictly from left to right:
\n" ); document.write( "(-9m)/7*(-9)/7n
\n" ); document.write( "(-9m)(-9)/7/7n
\n" ); document.write( "(-9m)(-9)/(7*7)n
\n" ); document.write( "(-9m)(-9)n/(7*7)
\n" ); document.write( "((-9)(-9)mn)/(49)
\n" ); document.write( "81mn/49\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Same steps but including the rendering tags:
\n" ); document.write( "\"%28-9m%29%2F7%2A%28-9%29%2F7n\"---Beware that the rendering on this site does not handle all of this correctly, so it looks wrong.
\n" ); document.write( "\"%28-9m%29%28-9%29%2F7%2F7n\"-----and looks wrong here too;
\n" ); document.write( "\"%28-9m%29%28-9%29%2F%287%2A7%29n\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"%28-9m%29%28-9%29n%2F%287%2A7%29\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"%28%28-9%29%28-9%29mn%29%2F%2849%29\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"81mn%2F49\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "I believe your original expression SHOULD be shown as this:
\n" ); document.write( "((-9/7)m*(-9)/7)n
\n" ); document.write( "which when rendered looks as it should, this way: \"%28%28-9%2F7%29m%2A%28-9%29%2F7%29n\"
\n" ); document.write( "You must excuse all the parentheses. The site makes a certain typeset rendering mistake which will not handle ungrouped division followed by multiplication. \n" ); document.write( "
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