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Originally Posted by tcondon
best strategy to explain how to solve the following problem:
12^2 / 4b + 4 when b=9
Some students evaluated teh problem and got 8 while others got 338.
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It should be 328. The precedence of operation is as follows: exponentiation, division, multiplication and addition. Some got 8 because they first multiplied 4 with 9. However, since division and multiplication are of the same precedence, division is evaluated first.