Even with the hint about remembering the order of operations, people still got it wrong on my poll. If you haven’t done the poll yet, click on the link above and respond.
The question was
The Answer:
A
N
S
W
E
R
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I have been asked in the comments numerous times, why step three just calculates left to right?
“Shouldn’t you do addition first?”.
So I am adding this explanation section to the top of the article (it is similar to information in the linked related posts).
Order of operations (excluding the first two parts of Parenthesis/Brackets and Exponents/Orders/Indices) is [DM] or [MD] followed by [AS] or [SA].
So, Multiplication and Division can be done at the same time and then Addition and Subtraction can be done at the same time.
The correct answer is as follows:
Question: 3 – 3 x 6 + 2
Multiplication first: 3 – 18 + 2
Left to right: -15 + 2 (or Addition first: 3 – 16)
Answer: -13
Source:
https://winthropdc.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/answer-only-for-genius-3-3-x-6-2/
