CountSolo
- I agree – thank you for the help.
It appears that The Star Swordsman was, indeed, correct…and I was
completely off the marker. Pitiful – why couldn’t I have been born a math whizz?
CountSolo is
right , just to let you all know . I checked it with a calculator .
You do a better job explaining than I do CountSolo. nice work.
I think the rules of which
comes first concerning addition, subtraction, etc., can be called BODMAS. I think it stands for brackets,
something, division, something, addition, subtraction. Someone else fill in the blanks, I can’t remember.
I was taught " Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally "
Perenthisis [ ( ) ]
Exponents
Multiplication
Division
Addition
Subtraction
he he
, funny about the " sally " thing .
gottalovepixar - Haha – I like that.
I can’t solve any algebra
equations to save my life. I feel like such an idiot… 
Wierd, at my school, we
just call it PEMDAS, (pem-dahs)
It’s BEDMAS XD We’re doing that right now. It’s
IB grade nine math.
Wheee.
Heh
Brackets
Exponents
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Multipilcation
A
ddition
Subtraction
Memorize that and it makes it a WHOLE lot easier.
We did do BODMAS, but the O stands for the same
thing that your E does- we just use the word ‘outers’ instead of exponents.
Really? I’ve never heard that term used in math before.
Hm. Ah well. I guess that’s teh difference in location. XD
By the way. Yay for Gorillaz. Love the
signature. XD
Wow - haven’t
thought about that in forever. Too busy with high order derivatives and integrals, ODEs, and stuff of that
sorts.
That’s weird , we do multiplication before division
.
For me, you do both, but you go from
right to left.
Sammeh- Whoo! High five! Now, back on topic…
The way we
learnt ir was that you could do multipulication/division and addition/subtraction first depending on which came
first…
If that makes sense.
…which goes to show that once you
understand it, you don’t have to worry about it because it would come so naturally. I mean, if you take higher
level math courses, it would be so impractical to have to actually think about the
order of operations, if you understand what I’m saying (for those of you who’ve learnt these things, imagine
performing applications of the binomial theorem or proving limits using the epsilon-delta definition without
having the order of operations come “naturally” 
)
It’s a pretty cliched advice, but I’ll
say it anyway because it works for many people: To be able to master these concepts, practice, practice,
practice. 
Going back to that problem, my teacher said somethiing about parentheses.
“It is the inside that counts.”