A good way to remember the order of operations is Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally, or PEMDAS. PEMDAS stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, Addition/Subtraction. If multiplication and division are in the same problem, you go in order. Same with addition in subtraction. What that means in this example is that since in PEMDAS, the M is first, you would multiply first instead of subtracting. :)