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Do you mean a question like 20/5/2? Without any parentheses, the rule would be to work from left to right, dividing 20 by 5 first: (20/5)/2 = 4/2 = 2.

If there were parentheses telling us to do the second division first, the answer would be different: 20/(5/2) = 20/2.5 = 8.

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