You don’t necessarily have to do parentheses first. What matters is that the things inside the parentheses are a group that you can’t break apart. If you have 10÷2+3-2*(2+1) you can do the division first 5+3-2*(2+1) then the addition outside the parentheses 8-2*(2+1) It’s just that before you do the multiplication of the term outside the parentheses, you have to handle the parentheses group, so you get 8-2*3 -> 8-6 -> 2
Hrmm.
I read that as resulting in 21.
My education system did fail me.
I plugged that into ghci as 2+5*(8-5), and it says 17.
:(
I did (2+5)*(8-5).
Doh.
[Edit: (Double doh! Mistyped that here as 5+2. XD)]
The problem is you can’t just add parenthesis willy nilly, that breaks the whole equation!
Well, it used to be a free country until common core and now this nonsense is the result. Numbers and punctuation mixed together. Pure chaos.
You do parenthesis first and then multiplications and then sums, you did parenthesis, then sums, then multiplications, wich is wrong.
You don’t necessarily have to do parentheses first. What matters is that the things inside the parentheses are a group that you can’t break apart. If you have
10÷2+3-2*(2+1)you can do the division first5+3-2*(2+1)then the addition outside the parentheses8-2*(2+1)It’s just that before you do the multiplication of the term outside the parentheses, you have to handle the parentheses group, so you get8-2*3->8-6->2You might want to report that error. Or, did you mean 2+5*(8-5)?
Oops! Typo. School failed me hard!
[Edit: Thanks. Corrected that.]
How far along in school are you btw?