We have the expression:
To answer this question, we can start by substituting the value for q = 8 into the expression:
We need to remember that we can apply the PEMDAS rule in these cases, that is, we can start with parentheses, then exponents, multiplications, divisions, and finally additions and subtractions.
Since we have here two operations, multiplication, and division, and they have the same "hierarchy" in solving this kind of expression using PEMDAS, we need to start solving the operations from the left to the right. Then, we have:
After the division and multiplication operations, we continue with the addition, and we finally obtained 66 for those combined operations.
In summary, therefore, we have that:
The final value for those combined operations is 66.