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Please help me I don’t understand

Please help me I don’t understand-example-1

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I think 8. Plug in -4 for x. 1/2-4^2
Using pemdas -4^2 is 16 and 1/2•16 is 8. If there were parenthesis around 1/2x then 1/2•-4 would be -2 and -2^2 is 4 but since there aren’t parentheses then 8
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