Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #14704: Order of operations - Question in "Order of operations
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-02-26 23:47:40+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, wrong-or-unclear, xp

Reporter: MESTolliver@gmail.com

the question is 56/8+2 however, there are no Parentheses "()" around the addition portion of the problem. according to the video I should interpret this problem as (56/8)+ 2 however, in the "show steps" it says to do the addition first. When I first looked at this problem my first instinct was to do the addition first, but I thought it might be a trick question. Because of representing division as fractions it would be clearer to always use the parentheses with operations in the denominator.

[order_of_operations.html?seed=163&problem=5](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/order_of_operations.html?seed=163&problem=5&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/order_of_operations.html?seed=163&problem=5&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2237.3%5C%22%22%2C244%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C3%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5C%227%5C%22%22%2C27%5D%5D)

["37.3","7"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.56 Safari/535.11

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