What are the rules of precedence?

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Answers will vary.  Every operator follows rules of precedence that dictate the order in which operations in the same statement are carried out. For example, multiplication and division always take precedence over addition and subtraction. So, in an expression such as a + b * c, b and c are multiplied, producing a temporary result before a is added to it. The assignment operator has a very low precedence, meaning that in a statement such as d = e + f + g, the operations on the right of the assignment operator are always performed before the final assignment to the variable on the left. In arithmetic statements, the rules of precedence can be overridden using parentheses.