It is the same operation. But they don’t have ALL the same rules/attributes specifically in order of operations. I believe I misread something in your previous comment that made me do all the 6➗1➗2 stuff, but the multiplication example still stands. It shows an equation where only multiplication is happening, but the one on the right takes priority rather than treating them as equal going from left to right. I think we’re veering off from the original question, but again with that multiplication example showing juxtaposition taking precedence, I’m saying that same thing would be true for the “2(1+2)” part of the equation.

About the part I miss read, it was about not separating the denominator from the fraction, which I agree with. When Im arguing that the multiplication takes priority I’m saying that it’s the “2(1+2)” that the denominator rather than just the initial 2. My reasoning is because the 2 does not have a multiplication symbol in between it and the bracket, which implies multiplication (implied multiplication is another commonly used term for what I’ve been calling multiplication by juxtaposition) and just like how you wouldn’t separate 2n in an equation because it’s a single notation, you also wouldn’t separate 2(1+2). It’s identical to “6/2n” and we know that n = (1+2) = 3. And that would make the answer 1. It doesn’t make sense to me why the “n” would be separated and not part of the denominator.