How do you simplify $12 - 3 times 4$ using order of operations?

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Answer 1 · 2018-07-09T23:05:28

$0$

$12 - 3 xx 4$

PEMDAS (order of operations) is shown here:
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Following this image and the expression, we have to do multiplication first:
$12 - 12$

Subtract:
$0$

Answer 2 · 2018-07-09T23:22:09

$0$

Multiplication takes precedence over subtraction, so we multiply $3$ and $4$ first to now get

$12-12$ , which simplifies nicely to $0$ .

Hope this helps!

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