Question

How do you evaluate `28+6*4-2`?

Answer 1

Sequence of arithmetic operations:

1. Anything inside parentheses
2. Exponentiation
3. Multiplication and Division, Left to Right
4. Addition and Subtraction, Left to Right

Given `28 + 6*4 -2`

There are no parentheses

Multiplication
`color(white)("XXXX")` `28+6*4-2 = 28 +24-2`

Addition and Subtraction
`color(white)("XXXX")`Left to Right
`color(white)("XXXX")` `color(white)("XXXX")` `28+24 -2 = 52 -2`
`color(white)("XXXX")` `color(white)("XXXX")` `52 - 2 = 50`

`28+6*4-2 = 50`