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My years out of school has made me forget about how division notation is actually supposed to work and how genuinely useless the ÷ and / symbols are outside the most basic two-number problems. And it's entirely me being dumb because I've already written problems as 6÷(2(1+2)) to account for it before. Me brain dun work right ;~;
There's no forms consensus on which one is correct. To avoid misunderstanding mathematicians use a horizontal bar.
The one that is least ambiguous is objectively more correcter.