Order of the operations:
1. Parentheses
2. Exponents
3. Multiplication and division from left to right
4. Addition and subtraction from left to right
For the given expression:
You need to solve first the operations in the parentheses, in the parentheses you also follow the order of operations then you need to solve frist the exponents that are in the parentheses.
Then, the first step to evaluate the given expression is solve 2^4Answer: D