How do you simplify $0.6(4-3^2) div 1 / 4 ^2$ using PEMDAS?

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Answer 1 · 2017-05-13T00:27:18

$48$

PEMDAS stands for Parentheses, Exponent, Multiply, Divide, Add, and Subtract. First. start with the parentheses. Inside the parentheses, we have:

$4-3^2$

Solve the exponent first. $3^2=9$ . So we have:

$4-9$

This becomes $-5$ . Now that we solved inside the parentheses, we're left with:

$0.6(-5)-:1/4^2$

Exponents take precedence over multiplication and division. Solve for $4^2$ . We get $16$ in the denominator. So we have:

$0.6(-5)-:1/16$

Multiplication and division have equal precedence. So we solve from left to right:

$0.6(-5)=-3$

So now we have:

$3-:1/16$

If you're dealing with fractions, you can flip the fraction and change the sign to a multiplication symbol. So we can rewrite it as:

$3xx16$

Solve:

$3xx16=48$

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