In today’s task, we’ll only include two parts of this puzzle, but that doesn’t make it any less tricky!

First, you need to understand the order of operations.

Should you just solve everything from left to right?

Well, no. Not really.

You must solve the multiplication before the addition.

Now, after solving that part, you can solve the rest from left to right.

Let’s look at an example:

14 – 3 x 2 – 5 = ?

First, we do the multiplication:

14 – 6 – 5 = ?

Then we proceed from left to right:

8 – 5 = ?

And so, the answer is:

The answer is 3.