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by AndyPatterson 2044 days ago
I don’t see how it can be both 1 and 9 though. In my mind it can only be 1 because anything to right of the division sign should be fully evaluated first before using the result in the division operation.
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It cannot be 9. Answering 9 requires you to see notation you recognize as unintuitive (if you are not a calculator, in any case), shut up and multiply, and discard that provenance.

Possible answers are 1 and "the question is ill-formed".