50 + 50 – 25 × 0 + 2 + 2 = ?
What result did you find? If your first instinct was to read from left to right and add everything up in a row… Wait a second! This type of calculation follows very specific rules. And this is exactly where the trap often hatches.
Secrecy: respect for the order of operations
This is where the famous rule of priority comes into play: in an equation, we always start with multiplications before addition and subtraction.
