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Questions and Answers
What should be done first when simplifying expressions involving rational numbers?
What should be done first when simplifying expressions involving rational numbers?
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication (correct)
- Division
Which operation in the order of operations is typically done last?
Which operation in the order of operations is typically done last?
- Multiplication
- Subtraction
- Division
- Addition (correct)
What could happen if the order of operations is not followed when simplifying rational numbers?
What could happen if the order of operations is not followed when simplifying rational numbers?
- The answer will be negative
- The expression will always be correct
- It only affects whole numbers, not fractions
- The result will be different from the correct answer (correct)