Order of Operations

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Order of Operations
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Follow these steps

• Parentheses and all symbols of groupingdoing the
  innermost first
• Exponents
• Multiplication and division from left to right
• Addition and subtraction from left to right

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Example 1
19 60 10 8 4
19 6 2
13 2
15
4
Example 2
3 6 9 5 8 48 6
3 54 40 8
57 40 8
17 8
25
5
Example 3
5 9 18 3 2 3 5
45 6 2 15
51 17
3
6
Example 4
63 718 3(15 ? 5)
63 718 3(3)
63 718 9
63 79
63 63
0
7
Example 5
42 2 7 (32 5)
42 2 7 (9 5)
42 2 7 4
42 2 3
16 2 3
32 3
35
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Try these examples
1) 62 4 3 72
2) 4(3 2 3) 5 7
3) 7 5 (18 6)4 2(7 4) 2
4) 8 16 2(3 4) 4
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Solutions
1) 73
2) 23
3) 26
4) 8