@ryaneggersjr@Hockey_Is_All@FreshestOfLegs@JomboyMedia 5(3) just magically turns into 5x3 in your mind. There’s still something attached to that equation, you can’t just let the parenthesis vanish or it turns into a different equation
Here’s pen and paper since you don’t trust AI or middle school math logic.
@ryaneggersjr@Hockey_Is_All@FreshestOfLegs@JomboyMedia I’m right, and doubling down. You’re just refusing to understand. Your parenthesis just vanish into the abyss and you’re failing to relaize Multiplication and Division is in order of operations (just like adding and subtracting). Left to right. Parenthesis first. You need a tutor
@ryaneggersjr@Hockey_Is_All@FreshestOfLegs@JomboyMedia Parenthesis don’t just vanish. Ambiguity comes from people mentally adding in a multiplication sign that didn’t pre-exist after they solve the inside part. The way the question is phrased is to cause debate, I’m not going to argue middle school level math anymore