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#1 Help Me ! » Orders of Operation Help » 2005-09-30 15:56:56

Kristin
Replies: 4

I am trying to learn how to do Orders of Operations and I am having a hard time understanding how to do them properly and get the correct answer.

Here's one of my problems :

21 divided by 7 + 4 x 3

And then there are problems like

5 ( 3+6 ) -3 to the 2 power.  I know with the 3 to the second power you times 3 twice.  However, that does - before 3 mean? Does this mean - subtracted?

Could someone explain it to me so I can understand it. The directions I have I am having a hard time understanding.  Here's what they are :

Step 1 : Do Operations within the Parentheses
Step 2 : Do Operations with Powers and Roos ( What is that ) ?
Step 3 : Do all multiplication and subtraction operations from left to right
Step 4 : Do all addition and subtraction operations from left to right

It's pretty much explanitory to some, however I don't think so.  How do you get the answers to the problems?

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