Don’t move the goalposts

I didn’t. You’re the one who has been desperately trying to make a False Equivalence argument between a(b+c) and a(bc)² 🙄

I’ve posted textbooks showing that “solving brackets” only applies to the inside,

No you haven’t. A college refresher isn’t a Maths textbook, and I already pointed out to you that they don’t mention The Distributive Law at all, unlike, you know, high school Maths textbooks 🙄

distribution is part of multiplication

And the high school Maths textbooks I posted prove you are wrong about that 🙄

and optional

And the high school Maths textbooks I posted prove you are wrong about that too, 🙄 unless you think “optional” is a valid interpretation of what “must” means 😂

You’ve said yourself your magic rule is taught in highschool,

Yep

so a refresher course in college would never ignore it

And yet you proved that they did in fact forget about it 🙄

Now instead of giving weak excuses

they say to person who has been backed up by every textbook they posted so far 😂

provide your part of the proof.

Just scroll back dude - they’re all still there, like here for example.

And I’m not talking about multiplication

Well that’ll be a nice change then 😂

I want to see anywhere where a distribution is given precedence over an exponent

Because you are hell bent on making a False Equivalence argument between a(b+c) and a(bc)². I don’t care dude. there is no exponent in the meme. I’ll take that as an admission that you are wrong about a(b+c) then.