145437, I'm the only one who has faced an essential truth here: Posted by Orbit_Established, Mon Apr-11-11 08:04 PM
In "ambiguous" questions like this, the intentions of the person who drafted the question ultimately are what quells the ambiguity.
In this case, you must read context from the way the question is written, what the numbers involved are, and the symbolism used.
The use of the division symbol automatically tells us that we are not making an actual calculation, but a kiddie calculation from elementary arithmetic. This is not mathematics, this is a teaching stepping stone to learning actual mathematics, which is why no one uses the division symbol in any actual mathematical calculation.
This point is completely irrefutable. People below me are scrambling and getting upset trying to dodge it, and they haven't done anything, at all, because it happens to be fair, lucid, logical, and correct.
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