2011-04-12, 11:22 PM
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/latetothread
After reading through the thread, I learned it the way Infection learned it, not the way you guys are trying to explain it. I've always learned to do it from top to bottom, left to right -- that's even how the Chinese and Japanese write Kanji. lol
There's nothing at all that would make me assume the 2 is to be multiplied to the 12 before the 48 even being involved, ESPCIALLY if you see it as a fraction.
48 over 2 -- Find a common demoninator : 2
24 over 1 -- 24 whole numbers.
9 + 3 -- 12
24 * 12 -- 288
The only other way would be if the (9+3) were with the 2 under the bar, making that part of the fraction as well. 48 over 24. However, with the way it is written in the thread title, the only way to really solve it is use the first way, since there's no way to show whether or not the (9+3) is under the bar.
/latetothread
After reading through the thread, I learned it the way Infection learned it, not the way you guys are trying to explain it. I've always learned to do it from top to bottom, left to right -- that's even how the Chinese and Japanese write Kanji. lol
There's nothing at all that would make me assume the 2 is to be multiplied to the 12 before the 48 even being involved, ESPCIALLY if you see it as a fraction.
48 over 2 -- Find a common demoninator : 2
24 over 1 -- 24 whole numbers.
9 + 3 -- 12
24 * 12 -- 288
The only other way would be if the (9+3) were with the 2 under the bar, making that part of the fraction as well. 48 over 24. However, with the way it is written in the thread title, the only way to really solve it is use the first way, since there's no way to show whether or not the (9+3) is under the bar.