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Number Sense: Drill Set 1, Problem 4. Solve the equation.

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00:03

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

00:07

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

00:12

And here are the potential answers:

00:16

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

00:20

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

00:23

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.

00:32

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

00:36

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

00:40

and subtracting.

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

00:47

Answer C. Done-zo.

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By the way, if you're on the dating scene

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and like artistic, sensitive types...

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