That gets top priority.

My men come first of all, George.

Then after that, you want to worry about exponents.

That would be number one.

Then it says to do multiplication and division next.

BEFORE I do that subtraction because multiplication division have priority.

And now this the thing in parentheses because we still want to do the parentheses first.

And we felt the most important priority was to bring together two sets of problems.

And then the parentheses, just no matter what, always take priority.

That gets priority of the addition, so we're going to do that before we do the addition.

Division takes priority over addition, so you actually want to do the division first, and we could actually write it here like this.

So when you're doing order of operations, or really when you're evaluating any expression, you should have this in the front of your brain that the top priority goes to parentheses.

Same thing if you have multiplication and division all on the same level.

But in any of these order of operations problems, you really just have to take a deep breath and remember, we're going to do parentheses first.

They get the same priority. And then addition and subtraction get the same priority.

One way I like to think about it is parentheses always takes top priority, but then after that, we go in descending order, or I guess we should say in well, yeah, in descending order of how fast that computation is.

What this tells us is that we do parenthesis first and expeonentiation takes priority over everything else here, so we have to evaluate these exponents before we multiply anything or before we subtract anything.

P is for Parenthesis, E is for Exponents, M and D are for multiplication and division and they are really at the same level of priority and then addition and subtraction are at the same level.

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Now, when you have multiple operations at the same level and in our order of operations, multiplication and division are at the same level then you do left to right.