this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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Semi-related: something in me wants to read that as 6 / (2*3), because 6 * 3 / 2 feels like a much more 'natural' way to write it
100% related actually, since that's the actual next line of working out. i.e. you cannot remove brackets unless there is only 1 term left inside, a mistake which those who have prematurely removed brackets have made and ended up with the wrong answer (because it flips the 3 from being in the denominator to being in the numerator).