How do you evaluate #2-5+8#?

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Jacobi J.
Mar 3, 2018

#5#

Explanation:

The mnemonic PEMDAS tells us we do addition before subtraction, but we have to work from left to right, so in this case, the subtraction would come first:

We get #-3+8#, which is the same thing as #8-3#, which evaluates to #5#.

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