• Cheradenine
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    23 hours ago

    Dude/ Dudette that’s worse. 7x3=21, 10x3=30, 21+30=492 51

    That does less insane to the membrane

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      22 hours ago

      I see them as the same except that your way illustrates what his parentheses are doing.

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        22 hours ago

        The way I see it the parentheses are good, it the 17x3 that hurts my brain.

        It’s already broken down, then gets more complicated by the 17x3. In my mind I now need to separate 17 into 10 and 7 then multiply them each by 3 and add them together, which is where we started in the first place.

        Brains are different, that’s how mine goes though.

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          22 hours ago

          I understood that to be a reference to the original screenshot. Thus the two equal signs. It was a way to walk you through how the breakdown ties back in.
          ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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            21 hours ago

            Not disagreeing, and I upvoted you for a different perspective. I did not see it that way, though I do now.

            Like I said, brains are different.