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Here's your shmoop du jour...

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Calculate 2 cubed plus 5 cubed times the quantity 7 minus 4.

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And here are the potential answers...

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OK, this is a total vanilla PEMDAS question.

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PEMDAS: an awesome math mnemonic for remembering the order of operations.

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See, like this thing.

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Like... Mary's Violet Eyes Made John Stay Up Nights Pining.

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So... this problem tests whether we can actually use the PEMDAS mantra.

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First we deal with the parentheses and get 7 minus 4 is 3...

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Then we take care of the exponents... 2 to the 3rd is 2 times 2 times 2,

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which is 4 times 2, which is 8... which is great.

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And 5 cubed is 5 times 5 times 5, which is 25 times 5, which is 125.

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So now we have a mere multiplication problem -- 8 plus 125 times 3.

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Since 125 times 3 is the "M" part of PEMDAS, we have to do it before doing any addition...

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...and we get 125 times 3, which equals 375.

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Now add 8 to get 383.

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And the answer is... C.

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As in "Chocolate tastes like History."

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