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They made two mistakes in the following work, below, explain their mistakes in the box below:

26 - 8 x 2 + 6 /3
18 x 2 + 6/3
36 + 6/3
42/3
14

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Answer is they went left to right instead of
Using order of operations, see highlighted mistakes in attachment

Parentheses
Exponent
Multiply
Divide
Add
Subtract

Correct order

26 {- 8 x 2 } + {6/3}

26 - 16 + 2

= 12
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