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What is the order of operations?

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It is parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. A good way to remember this is; Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. And always work from left to right.

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The usual rules are that first, you must do any operations within parentheses. Then (and also, within the parentheses) you:

* First do all powers

* Then do all multiplications and divisions from left to right

* Then do all additions and subtractions from left to right

There are a few additional rules, but those are the main ones.

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Parentheses (Please) Exponents (Excuse) Multiplication (My) Division (Dear) Addition (Aunt) Subtraction (Sally)

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