M ultiplication and D ivision left-to-right AS. This listing tells you the ranks of the operations. Division is sometimes considered as left-associative.
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When doing computations always follow the order of operations and always perform the operations according to the following rule. This is natural if one looks as division and multiplication as operations on the same level. The order of operations tells us the order to solve steps in expressions with more than one operation. 10 - 7 8.