• A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
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    18 days ago

    You do parenthesis first and then multiplications and then sums, you did parenthesis, then sums, then multiplications, wich is wrong.

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      17 days ago

      You don’t necessarily have to do parentheses first. What matters is that the things inside the parentheses are a group that you can’t break apart. If you have 10÷2+3-2*(2+1) you can do the division first 5+3-2*(2+1) then the addition outside the parentheses 8-2*(2+1) It’s just that before you do the multiplication of the term outside the parentheses, you have to handle the parentheses group, so you get 8-2*3 -> 8-6 -> 2

      • You don’t necessarily have to do parentheses first

        Yes, you do necessarily have to do it first

        What matters is that the things inside the parentheses are a group that you can’t break apart

        And outside, and you must do them first. You haven’t finished Brackets until you have 5(8-5)=15.

        10÷2+3-2*(2+1) you can do the division first

        only because you’ve separated that part with a plus sign