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What do brackets mean in a math sum?

Updated: 9/22/2022
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JamieLynn

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11y ago

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solve anything in brackets before anything else.

ex: [7+2(9-4)]8 you would do the 7+2 first, (9) then the parenthesis (5) then multiply the 9 and the 5 (45) and then multiply that by 8 (360)

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