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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.
Only if it's a fraction. If it's 2 separate terms then you use whatever your country uses for division - obelus or colon or whatever. They have to be 2 separate things, otherwise how would you write to divide by a fraction?