Death, you people need to be educated!
Multiplication does not come before division, just as subtraction does not come before addition. They are a part of the same step. So there are technically only 4 steps in PEMDAS, which is what makes it confusing.
When doing multiplication/division, I had learned that left to right is the proper order to complete it. However, I had also learned that if there is multiplication/division involved a parenthesis, it would be completed first. But, the expression can be written in two different ways. For example, the parenthesis could be replaced with a simple multiplication symbol. Somebody please explain.
