What is the Answer to: 6 x 6 – 6 + 6 x 6 – 6 x 6 = ?
What is the answer to: 6 x 6 - 6 + 6 x 6 - 6 x 6 = ?
This problem looks easy but upon further inspection, you realize you have to do more than 4x4+4... You have to use the Order of Operations.
Order of Operations- PEMDAS (all problems are read left to right)
- Parenthesis
- Exponents
- Multiplication
- Division
- Addition
- Subtraction
Order of operations says you should do the multiplication first in this problem. In order to help see where the multiplication is, you can put parentheses around them:
(6 x 6) - 6 + (6 x 6) - (6 x 6) = ?
6 x 6 = 36 so 36 - 6 + 36 - 36
Get it yet? The answer is 30!