What does (3+6)×12 what does that mean

Its wanting you to find the answer im guessing ?

like (3+6) x 121

Add the Numbers

9x 121

Multiply the Numbers

and the answer would be  1089 ?

I hope Helped you

- Dante

When doing problems like this, we use BEDMAS, brackets, exponents,division,multiplication,addition, subtraction. We do these steps from left to right

We have brackets and that is the very first step.

9x12

from there we just answer the question

108

was assigned with this problem (the reference text is attached):

Which of the following, if included in a student's paper, would NOT be an example of plagiarism?

1. In the game of baseball, which is rather boring, the batter stands on home base (Hughes 1).

2. Baseball is rather surprisingly known as "America's Favorite Pastime."

3. Baseball is "a rather boring sport played between two teams of nine players" (Hughes 1).

4. All of these are plagiarism.

The answer tells that only the third choice is NOT a plagiarism. My question is, why is the first choice a plagiarismwas assigned with this problem (the reference text is attached):

Which of the following, if included in a student's paper, would NOT be an example of plagiarism?

1. In the game of baseball, which is rather boring, the batter stands on home base (Hughes 1).

2. Baseball is rather surprisingly known as "America's Favorite Pastime."

3. Baseball is "a rather boring sport played between two teams of nine players" (Hughes 1).

4. All of these are plagiarism.

The answer tells that only the third choice is NOT a plagiarism. My question is, why is the first choice a plagiarism

Step-by-step explanation:

was assigned with this problem (the reference text is attached):

Which of the following, if included in a student's paper, would NOT be an example of plagiarism?

1. In the game of baseball, which is rather boring, the batter stands on home base (Hughes 1).

2. Baseball is rather surprisingly known as "America's Favorite Pastime."

3. Baseball is "a rather boring sport played between two teams of nine players" (Hughes 1).

4. All of these are plagiarism.

The answer tells that only the third choice is NOT a plagiarism. My question is, why is the first choice a plagiarism