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Please helpz Your friend evaluates (12 + x) ÷ 6 for x = 6 and gets 13. Explain your friend's error.

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The correct answer is obviously 3 because if we substitute x = 6 into the expression we get ( 12 + 6 ) / 6. Using the order of operations, we get 18 / 6 = 3.

The friend likely didn't use the order of operations when evaluating. It's most likely that he substituted x = 6 into the expression and got ( 12 + 6 ) / 6. Instead of first adding 12 and 6, he divided 6 by 6 first to get 1, then added 12 to get 13.

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