Can anyone Help Me Please?

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:eek: Hi i am an older student (47) going for my Nursing :roflmao:(i did get into a program) and had all my pre-req's done until i found out i had to take this College math class and i am having a problem with :angrybird1: Order of Operations and now the :cry: Rules of exponents. Is there an easy way to do it or remember it??? Please help i can not get it down and i HAVE to pass this class and the HESI. :laugh:
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Check out a basic Algebra textbook. Perhaps a different book explains it in a different enough way that it's easier for you to process. I always sucked at math until I had to take a math class for graduate school. If I didn't pass the class, I was out of school. Maybe it was the text and maybe it was the professor, but I got it that time around!

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Khan Academy is what got me through all of my college algebra classes. It's fantastic.

Good luck!

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Thank you

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For order of operations, I learned PEMDAS or "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" to help me in high school and it's stuck with me. So it's:

1. Parentheses

2. Exponents

3. Multiply/Divide (from left to right)

4. Add/Subtract (also from left to right)

As far as exponents, what is confusing you about them?

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It's the additions and subtraction with the exponents in order of operations that messes me up all the time when its a big problem.

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