I’m not a math person at all but in class, I remember being taught, “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” as the order of operations. Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction, left-to-right. Reducing the parentheses to their lowest form is already done, 3 = 3. 6 * 6 = 36. Multiply 2 * 3 = 6. Divide 36 / 6 = 6. Addition 6 + 4 = 10. Or you can use the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and just say “42” no matter what. Although I think in the second book (spoiler alert, if that’s still possible) when Arthur and Ford are pulling the Scrabble tiles from the knotted towel they came up with “What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?” “You mean that’s it?” said Ford. “That’s it.” “Six by nine. Forty-two.” “That’s it. That’s all there is.”
I’ll settle for it.