For those of you riding the short bus, I'll supply the cheat sheet and bold the important part for you. [quote]Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication [b][i][u]and[/u][/i][/b] Division, Addition and Subtraction[/quote] Multiplication and Division have the same priority, so you must do them left to right. Since there are no parenthesis around the 6 divided by 2, you can't assume you're taking 6 divided by everything after it. That's...sort of why parenthesis exist.