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Old 04-29-2011, 01:52 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oojay View Post
The standard order of operations, or precedence, is expressed here:

Terms inside Parenthesis
Exponents and Roots
Multiplication and Division
Addition and Subtraction

This means that if a mathematical expression is preceded by one operator and followed by another, the operator higher on the list should be applied first. The commutative and associative laws of addition and multiplication allow terms to be added in any order and factors to be multiplied in any order, but mixed operations must obey the standard order of operations.

Multiplication takes precedence over Division, as Division is the inverse of it, deeming Multiplication the "positive" operation.



THE ANSWER IS STILL 1
Neither takes precedence over the other. It goes from left to right.


Order of Operations - PEMDAS (with worked solutions & videos)

Every math textbook you read will tell you this.
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