How do you evaluate $12 \div 4 \div 2$ $12div4div2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-06T01:59:00

The answer is $1.5$ $1.5$ .

Since all the operations in this expression are the same, start with the leftmost part and move to the right after every step.

It ends up looking like this:

$= 12 \div 4 \div 2$ $color(white)=12div4div2$

$= 12 \div 4 \div 2$ $=color(red)(12div4)div2$

$= 3 \div 2$ $=color(red)3div2$

$= 3 \div 2$ $=color(blue)(3div2)$

$= 1.5$ $=color(blue)1.5$

How do you evaluate 12÷4÷212div4div2?