 All right, so what about the order? How does multiplication fit into the order of operations? So again the fundamental rule of order of operations do all operations from left to right unless and Our first unless you have an operation within a grouping symbol you have an operation with higher precedence Now addition and subtraction have equal precedence. So they're done from left to right But multiplication has a higher precedence. So it's going to get done first So let's say if we can put a set of parentheses down to make our statement true and then we'll identify the type of expression that we have So maybe we don't need any parentheses at all and the statement is true by itself Well, let's check it out. So two plus five times three minus one the order of operations We have multiplication addition subtraction Multiplication has higher precedence. So multiplication is going to get done first. We'll do the five times three That's 15 and then we have addition and subtraction. They're Equiprecedents, so if they are evaluated from left to right two plus 15 is 17 minus one is 16 And that's not what we want. So we do need parentheses someplace now again since multiplication takes precedence over plus and Subtract nothing would change if I threw parentheses around the five times three it would the parentheses would say do this first But we'd have to do that first anyway So let's try throwing parentheses around the two plus five and see if that change see what that changes So that's two plus five times three minus one parentheses. They do the stuff inside first multiplication and Subtraction multiplication gets done first and then we do the subtraction still about what we want so maybe we'll throw those parentheses around the three minus one so parentheses get done first Multiplication and addition Multiplication gets done first then we do the addition still not what we want So since placing one set of parentheses didn't work we should See if placing two sets of parentheses works So I'll throw them around the two plus five and I'll also throw them around the three minus one parentheses say do stuff first that's two plus five is seven Three minus one is two then multiplication 14, which is exactly what we want and We can identify the expression by the last thing we did the last thing we did is Multiply so this expression is a multiplication