On April 19, 2011 at 10:57, djy said...
Only if one doesn't understand, or have never been taught, the rules governing the order of operations.
exactly. Daniel, there is a reason the answer is always 288 in a programming language/scientific calculator because the proper way to calculate what is written will give you 288. The only way it is "ambiguous" is if one assumes the person that wrote it (which is not impossible) did not know the proper way to compute it and so miswrote what he meant
