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Expert: John Zalewski - 10/7/2009


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Use the descriptive property to evaluate the expression

4 x (80 + 3)

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Hello, Jasmine.

According to the order of operations, evaluation of parentheses comes before multiplication. Therefore, for this problem, 80 + 3 is first evaluated, which equals 83.

83 is then multiplied by 4, which gives an answer of 332.

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John

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