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When are you able to drop the brackets/parenthesis? I was left with:

√25.5*(100-16)

Should I do 100-16, then *25.5, and then get the √ of that result?

Many thanks!

Answer provided by our tutors

Yes, that is exactly what you should do. You will see the same if you go to 'Options' and adjust the number of steps to see to 'Show: a lot of steps'. After applying you will see the following solution:

In general, if you are not satisfied with the number of solution steps displayed (either too many steps or too few), click on the Options button to adjust the number of steps to be shown. On the same screen, you can select integer or real arithmetics to be used during the solution process (e.g., x=1/2 vs. x=0.5). It is important to understand that if integer arithmetics is chosen, then all decimal numbers will be converted to integer fractions as part of the solution process. This may produce a solution that is long and somewhat confusing.

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