Eric Nicholas K's answer to Shasha's Secondary 1 Maths Malaysia question.

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Eric Nicholas K
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Order of operations apply (multiplication and division comes first, followed by addition and subtraction).

It is easier to do this by converting numbers to improper fractions first. Then we can make denominators the same at the end to combine the fractions into a single fraction.