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According to the rules of order of arithmetic operations, parentheses are resolved first.
We start by solving the inner parentheses, first we will solve the root using the formula:
The exercise obtained within parentheses is:
First we solve the multiplication exercise and then we subtract:
After solving the inner parentheses, the resulting exercise is:
According to the rules of the order of arithmetic operations, we first solve the exercises of multiplication and division, and then subtraction.
We place the two exercises within parentheses to avoid confusion:
\( 20\div(4+1)-3= \)
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