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SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Nowhere in your “proof” screenshots does it say anything about distribution being part of the brackets step

Which step is first? Brackets. What do they do first in 5(36)/9? The Brackets.

What does the other textbook do with bc? Puts it in Brackets. Which step is fist in order of operations? Brackets 🙄 What do they end that page with? “those who study algebra are required to make their calculations conform to these laws”. You seriously need to work on your comprehension that I need to explicitly spell out to you what the textbooks say

Distribution is a method that can help solve equations

The Property is. The Law is a rule which literally must be obeyed, as per Maths textbooks 🙄

it isn’t required

Yes it is! That’s why it’s a Law 😂

If you have 2(3+5) you’re free to solve it as 23+25 or as 2*8

Nope, neither

1/2(3+5)=1/(6+10)

1/2x3+2x5=3/2+10 WRONG ANSWER

1/2x8=8/2=4 WRONG ANSWER

Welcome to why it must be in brackets, as per Maths textbooks 🙄

That is because juxtaposition means multiplication and nothing else

says person who can’t cite any Maths textbook that says that. Nope! It means it’s a Term/Product, the result of a Multiplication (or Factorisation), and nothing else…

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Note that it never used the word Multiplication at all in that definition 🙄

Math textbooks almost universally will either use clear brackets or simply write divisions in 2 lines

or an obelus or slash on one line

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which avoids the confusion altogether

Only people who don’t remember the rules of Maths are confused about it. Students have no trouble with it.

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