How do you simplify $4 + 3(-6) - 1$ using order of operations?

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Answer 1 · 2018-07-09T23:06:26

$-15$

$4 + 3(-6) - 1$

PEMDAS (the order of operations) is shown here:
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The first thing to do is multiplication:
$4 - 18 - 1$

Subtract from left to right:
$-14 - 1$

$=-15$

Hope this helps!

Answer 2 · 2018-07-09T23:39:15

$-15$

Multiplication takes precedence over addition/subtraction, so we can do $3*-6$ first to get $-18$ . We now have

$4-18-1$

We can work from left to right to get

$-14-1=-15$

Hope this helps!

How do you simplify 4 + 3(-6) - 1 4 + 3(-6) - 1 using order of operations?