read the read the read the read the end evaluate + recall the read the read the end recall the recall the recall the recall the end evaluate recall - the recall the figure details of evaluating + - often you can evaluate as you go from left to rightas in the preceding example howeveryou need to be surewhen you come to an operand-operator-operand combination such as +bthat the operator on the right side of the isn' one with higher precedence than the if it does have higher precedenceas in this exampleyou can' do the addition yet howeverafter you've read the the multiplication can be carried out because it has the highest priorityit doesn' matter whether or follows the howeveryou still can' do the addition until you've found out what' beyond the when you find there' nothing beyond the but the end of the expressionyou can go ahead and do the addition figure shows this process parentheses are used to override the normal precedence of operators table shows how you would evaluate *( + without the parenthesesyou would do the multiplication firstwith themyou do the addition first