Posted by jamia on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 7:59pm.
Use the priorities of operations, which are:
Parentheses (), [], etc,
exponents
multiplication and division (left to right)
addition and subtraction (left to right)
So you would first evaluate
[3+12/5]
then the multiplication and finally the addition.
Post your answer for checking if you wish.
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