How do you simplify 7(3)-2*4?

1 Answer
Mar 25, 2018

13

Explanation:

We deal with the parentheses first, if you remember PEMDAS:

Parentheses
Exponents
Multiplication
Division
Addition
Subtraction

So first:
7(3)=21

Then we look at the multiplication of 2 and 4:
2*4=8

Next we subtract both numbers to get our answer:
21-8=13