How do you simplify (3 times 6) - 5 using order of operations?

1 Answer
Mar 13, 2018

Use BIDMAS!

Explanation:

  • Brackets
  • Indicies
  • Division
  • Multiplication
  • Addition
  • Subtraction

So away to figure out the question is to follow the rule of BIDMAS!

The question is:

(3xx6)-5

Since 3xx6 equals 18, you would write

=18-5

Then 18-5 equals 13, so you would write

= 13

There you go. The answer to that question is 13.