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The ambiguous ones at least have some discussion around it. The ones I've seen thenxouple times I had the misfortune of seeing them on Facebook were just straight up basic order of operations questions. They weren't ambiguous, they were about a 4th grade math level, and all thenpeople from my high-school that complain that school never taught them anything were completely failing to get it.
I'm talking like 4+1x2 and a bunch of people were saying it was 10.
the answer is 6 though, right?
No, the aswer clearly is
2x+4
.my brain hurts again
I refuse to accept
x
as a multiplication sign. Multiplication ist either•
or maybe*
but neverx
and certainly not×
, because that's a cross product