{"id":646,"date":"2026-04-25T23:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:46:05","slug":"we-are-given-the-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"We are given the expression:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2 + 2 \\div 2 \\times 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first glance, it may look straightforward\u2014but the key is to follow the <strong>order of operations<\/strong>, often remembered as <strong>PEMDAS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>P<\/strong>arentheses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>E<\/strong>xponents<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>M<\/strong>ultiplication and <strong>D<\/strong>ivision (from left to right)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A<\/strong>ddition and <strong>S<\/strong>ubtraction (from left to right)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step-by-step solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1: Check for parentheses and exponents<\/strong><br>There are none in this expression, so we move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2: Handle division and multiplication (left to right)<\/strong><br>We do NOT go strictly left-to-right across everything \u2014 we must prioritize division and multiplication first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The expression becomes:<br>2 + (2 \u00f7 2 \u00d7 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now solve from <strong>left to right<\/strong> within this part:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First: <strong>2 \u00f7 2 = 1<\/strong><br>\u2192 Now the expression becomes:<br>2 + 1 \u00d7 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Next: <strong>1 \u00d7 2 = 2<\/strong><br>\u2192 Now the expression becomes:<br>2 + 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3: Perform addition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2 + 2 = <strong>4<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>2 + 2 \\div 2 \\times 2 At first glance, it may look straightforward\u2014but the key is to follow the order of operations, often remembered <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/?p=646\" title=\"We are given the expression:\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}