Hello! The Order Of Operations is PEMDAS. To get the answer to come out as 85, we can put the parenthesis around 7 and 12 and put the multiplication symbol between them. Add 3 to it and subtract 2. The problem would look like this: 3 + (7 * 12) -2 = 85. This works, because you do what’s in parenthesis first, and then do addition and subtraction form left to right.
