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What is 48÷2(9+3)?

In the field of real numbers, does the expression 10 / 2 * 5 make sense? Is it 25 or 1? Is it a bad question or the order of computation from left-to-right is implicit (axiomatic) when omitting parentheses?

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    See [here](http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/33215/what-is-48293) for discussion of the order of operations. โ€“ 2012-03-21
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations โ€“ 2012-03-22
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    With the resources you have today, always do web search first then post here. โ€“ 2012-03-22

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