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SO CLOSE! But, of course, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.... If you take a look at your scrap paper, the next-to-last line should have shown subtraction and then addition; your answer indicates that you didn't work from LEFT-TO-RIGHT. Remember, do these operations starting from the left-hand side; complete them in the order that they appear. Please copy and solve this problem on your paper: 36 - 2(3 + 5) + 6 =
Order of Operations Automatic Flip-Through SLIDE SHOW Overview of the Order of Operations © 1992, 1999 Amby Duncan-Carr All rights reserved.
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