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Glitch in the matrix (ani.social)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

8 / 2 * (2 + 2)

That's not the same as 8 / 2 (2 + 2). In the original question, 2(2+2) is a single term in the denominator, when you added the multiply you separated it and thus flipped the (2+2) to be in the numerator, hence the wrong answer.