Carry out multiplication and division stages before the addition and subtraction stages. Also most important: to check to see whether the answer is reasonable? Personally I never used BODMAS or other"words" which were supposed to tell you how to proceed. My method was to be logical.
yes
order of operations
You memorize the rules that are considered standard.
If you change the order of operations, you will get a different result. The person who wrote the expression had a specific order of operations in mind (using generally-accepted rules), so arbitrarily using some other order of operations is, quite simply, wrong.
The various operations within the expression are carried out using the order of operations: BIDMAS (UK) or PEMDAS (US).
There are different rules for different operations.
order of operations
order of operations
what is a special set of rules that gives the order in which calculations are done to solve a problem
The order of operations :)
It doesn't come from anyone direct a group of people made up the rules
the order of precedence This answer is incorrect and I was graded as being wrong on an Excel exam for not defining it as Order of Operations. Though technically that is what order of operations is and a set of Excel online Flashcards had the same answer being Order of Precedence. Precedence Order is more commanly called Order of Operations, I do believe