How do you simplify $8+(15div3)-4$ ?

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How do you simplify $8+(15div3)-4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-04-14T18:16:20

The order of operations is
1. anything inside parentheses
2. exponentiation (left to right)
3. multiplication and division (left to right)
4. addition and subtraction (left to right)

So
$8+(15div3)-4$
is evaluated as
$=8+5-4$
$=13-4$
$=9$

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