Solve the following:
Solve the following:
Let's simplify this expression while adhering to the order of operations which states that exponents come before multiplication and division, which come before addition and subtraction, and that parentheses take priority over all.
In our expression, there is a term in parentheses that needs to be multiplied. We'll start by simplifying this expression, remembering that division comes before addition, so we'll first perform the division operation within the parentheses and then the addition operation in this expression:
Let's continue simplifying the expression we that we got in the last step. Since multiplication comes before addition, we'll first calculate the multiplication in the expression and then perform the addition operation:
To summarise:
Therefore the correct answer is answer C.
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