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Sir Will posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

Brackets are the same thing as Parenthesis in PEDMAS. It's literally the same system with a different name for Parenthesis.

And it means to do everything INSIDE the brackets. All that's inside the brackets is the 3. 2(3) is 2*3.

Yes, but that's not the problem causing people getting 10. It's largely just the spacing in the problem. 2(3) is spread farther apart from the division sign which for some people think it means that it's important to do first.

This is pretty the case for every poorly formatted math equation you see on the internet. They are intentionally written so people will naturally go for the incorrect route.

EDIT: While 2(3) is technically a legal way to write 2 x 3 you will never see anyone write it that way, because it's not a very clear way to express 2 x 3 in a formula.
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