Definition of Order of Operations

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Order of Operations
	The rules of which calculation comes first in an expression They are: Do everything inside parentheses first: () then do exponents: x² then do multiplies and divides from left to right lastly do the adds and subtracts from left to right Example: 5 × (3 + 4) - 2 × 8 = 5 × 7 - 2 × 8 = 35 - 16 = 19