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Originally Posted by FlexxAeon
wrong....
apply it to real life. if i had 40 bucks, and i said i'd give you that plus double whatever money you had in your pocket....
40 + 2 x X = your money
badly notated.... should be 40 + (2 x X)... but similar to the original equation.
so if you had no money in your pocket (X = 0), doing the math from left to right would get you $0.
40 + 2 = 42, then 42 x 0 = 0?
so did my 40 bucks disappear because you're broke?
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Not quite correct, because you'd need to say you'd give me 40 bucks and another 40 bucks, times that 80 bucks by whatever I have in my pocket, in this case 0, then a buck on top. Which is a buck.
Now, if you said you'd give me 40 bucks, plus 40 bucks multiplied by what I have in my pocket (in other words, you verbally added the parentheses), plus a buck, then you'd give me 41 bucks.