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Answer: 11 units
Step-by-step explanation:
-3 and 3 are 6 units apart, so that would be 6 units, and when you add the -5 into the problem, the 6 units become 11 units. Hope this helped :)
Because you have to go in the order of PEMDAS, parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. From what you are saying, 'why you must simplify 3 to the second power first' it seems that you have no parenthesis, so you move onto what is next, which is exponents, in this case, 3 to the power of two.
2.36 is the answer because if you subtract 24.75 from 53.07 and then divide your answer by 12 is how you get your answer