Question 8204: Please help me solve this problem:
a=32 b=45 c=5
ab / 6c = ?
Would you
32x45=1440
6x5=30
1440/30=48
or
32 x 45= 1440
1440/6=240x5=1200
Answer by glabow(165)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Without any parentheses to change the order of evaluation, the rule is to do multiplication and division operations left to right.
So, it's
a times b divided by 6 multiplied by c, which is
32 x 45 / 6 x 5.
Your second calculation is correct [1200].
Note: if the author wanted to do the multiplication first, the expression would have been
ab/(6c), read "a times b divided by the quantity 6 times c."
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