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What is FOIL and PEMDAS?

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Foil - prevent from succeeding
Pemdas - It is a method used my mathematics students to remember operations
User Christian Meyer
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FOIL and PEMDAS are both ways to solve mathematical equations.

FOIL
First
Outside
Inside
Last

PEMDAS
Parenthesis
Exponents
Multiplication &
Division
Addition &
Subtraction


FOIL is usually used to solve equations in two sets of parenthesis, for example:
(23+x)(5-4x)

PEMDAS is used to solve multiple-operation equations, such as:
5 x 4 + 6 - 2 x 7

Whew, hope this helped :D
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