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Originally Posted by DVTimes
if we had brackets its a different sum.
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Ok, so you are aware of the fact that the presence of brackets affects how you solve an equation. Why is that? why does the presence of brackets change the order off things? Because there's such a thing as the
order of operations.
The people who say the answer is 1, seem to accept the first part of the order of operations (brackets) and the last part (left to right) but seem to ignore or be ignorant of all the steps in between.