>>13002930How many times do you want to post this again, faggot?
>3) why the fuck doesn't whatever the governing body of mathematical conventions is just declare how it be once and for all so these stupid threads go awayThey did, brainlet. Parenthesis. The known convention for the order of operations is:
1.) Parenthesis first
2.) Power
3.) Multiplication and Division (from left-to-right)
4.) Addition and Subtraction (from left-to-right)
Basically, what's the convention here is that specific parenthesed math expressions can be ignored aka they don't need parenthesis. Why is that useful? Well, you wouldn't like to re-define the order of operations in any new exercise, would you? It would only start looking like a bloated mess:
( (6 / 2) * (1+2) ) , this isn't all too bad, but imagine a bigger one.
Thus, the answer is 9. Of course, you could completely define your order of operations, and get a few faggots to join your little convention you've created. But the majority will never use this and instead take the convention that most agreed on.
