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[-] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 points 9 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.

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