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Here's a boring, unshmoopy question you'll find on an exam somewhere in life...

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Evaluate 13 plus 3 to the fourth times 8 minus 4.

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And here are the potential answers:

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It's a pretty straightforward, multi-step problem... ...we just need to break it up.

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The 13 is just... 13. It can stay put.

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3 to the fourth power is 3 times 3 which is 9 times 3 which is 27 times 3 which is 81.

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Then 8 minus 4 is just 4.

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So you can rewrite the whole thing as 13 plus the quantity 81 times 4...

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...remember, you always favor the fancy stuff like multiplying and dividing ahead of adding

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and subtracting.

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So 81 times 4 is 324 and then we just add 13 and we get 337.

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Answer C. Done-zo.

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