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Auditing Warehouse Invoice Formulas

A warehouse manager is training a newly hired administrative assistant to audit inventory invoice formulas. One of the formulas uses an expression modeled by 5+23+3[63(42)]{}5 + 2^3 + 3[6 - 3(4 - 2)].

The assistant is unsure how to handle the different sets of grouping symbols (parentheses and square brackets) appearing in the same expression. State the fundamental mathematical rule the assistant must recall regarding the sequence in which nested grouping symbols must be resolved.

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