You want to use PEMDAS to solve this problem. So we do the parentheses first (4-2) = 2 Then you would do the exponent next 2 to the 5th power is 32 2 to the 3rd power is 8 (2) to the 4th power is 16 32 / 8 • 16 Then we want to do Multiplication and division from what ever comes first so in this case 32/8, which will equal 4 then we multiple 4 with 16 making the answer 64