<p>The answer is 9 and only 9 because convention explicitly states that there is only one correct way to interpret it.</p>
<p>The distributive property isn’t an operation, it’s a property of multiplication. Multiplication and division don’t take precedence over the other, and are read left to right. 6÷2*(1+2) is the same as 6÷2(1+2).</p>
<p>The distributive property applies in that 6/2 = 3, and 3(1+2) = 3 + 6 = 9.</p>