Question 37510: -2-4+7+3(-4)+17
Answer by fractalier(6550)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! We need to apply the order of operations, PEMDAS, when doing problems such as this:
-2 - 4 + 7 + 3(-4) + 17 =
Thus multiplying comes before adding and subtracting, and we get
-2 - 4 + 7 - 12 + 17 =
Then we add and subtract left to right as we find them...yielding
6 as our answer
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