The PEMDAS rules that state the order in which the operations in an expression should be solved are. After exponents Excel will perform multiplication and division then addition and subtraction. This order of operations can be changed by adding brackets to the equation.
You can however use parentheses to help you from getting confused.
For this Excel already has predefined order of operations. Parentheses Exponentiation Multiplication division Addition Subtraction - Concatenation Logical operators Hope you understood how to use Mathematical and Logical operations in Excel. To change the order of evaluation enclose in parentheses the part of the formula to be calculated first. The correct answer to 234 is 20.