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I can’t buy that in-explicitly. 

If everything to the right of the divide (or slash) is to be done first then it needs brackets/parentheses. Yes it is clearer if presented as a numerator over a denominator but as noted previously a text presentation doesn’t allow for this. There may be an implicit understanding amongst some but for universal clarity parantheses are needed. 
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And the implicit multiplication of a value adjacent to an expression in parentheses doesn’t change the fundamental concept. 
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That was basically my thinking, too! That's why it always made sense to me to do it that way.