Alright, left this topic only to find out it's even worse than before.
To those who posted this link, http://www.purplemath.com/modules/orderops2.htm about the parenthesis making the multiplication stronger it leaves me to this conclusion to which the author already stated: it's inconclusive.
Why?
If you enter that same problem(either the example they give or the one we're talking about) in a calculator, Wolfram Alpha etc. and change the brackets to parenthesis and vice verse, the answer is completely different.
48÷2[9+3] comes up to 2 while 48÷2(9+3) = 288 which makes no sense at all. So we can argue all day but it seems that no one can give a definite answer. There is multiple sites saying you only complete what's in the parenthesis/brackets while the link above has a rule that either not a lot know or consider.
To those who posted this link, http://www.purplemath.com/modules/orderops2.htm about the parenthesis making the multiplication stronger it leaves me to this conclusion to which the author already stated: it's inconclusive.
Why?
If you enter that same problem(either the example they give or the one we're talking about) in a calculator, Wolfram Alpha etc. and change the brackets to parenthesis and vice verse, the answer is completely different.
48÷2[9+3] comes up to 2 while 48÷2(9+3) = 288 which makes no sense at all. So we can argue all day but it seems that no one can give a definite answer. There is multiple sites saying you only complete what's in the parenthesis/brackets while the link above has a rule that either not a lot know or consider.