When you write a numerical expression, how can you show what operation to do first?

Adaylily farm sells a portion of their daylilies and allows a portion to grow and divide. the recursive formula an=1.5(an-1)-100 represents the number of daylilies, a, after n years. after the fifth year, the farmers estimate they have 2225 daylilies. how many daylilies were on the farm after the first year?

The late fee for library books is $2.00 plus 15¢ each day for a book that is late. if maria’s fee for a late book was $3.20, write and solve a linear equation to find how many days late the book was.

[15 points]find the least common multiple of the expressions: 1. 3x^2, 6x - 18 2. 5x, 5x(x +2) 3. x^2 - 9, x + 3 4. x^2 - 3x - 10, x + 2 explain if possible