SOLUTION: Evaluate: 5(6 -3) - 1 * 6 Can you help me solve this if you can and explain it? I don't get it

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Question 764551: Evaluate: 5(6 -3) - 1 * 6
Can you help me solve this if you can and explain it? I don't get it
Answer by rothauserc(4718) About Me  (Show Source):
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5(6 -3) - 1 * 6
order of operations states do all operations in parenthesis first, then multiplication and division from left to right, then addition and subtraction from left to right - so we have
5*3 - 1 * 6 (evaluated the operation inside parenthesis)
15 - 6 (evaluated the multiplications)
15 - 6 = 9 (evaluated the subtraction)