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Maintaining Consistency in Manual Formula Audits

A corporate auditing team uses the mnemonic 'Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally' to ensure all staff follow the same sequence of operations when manually verifying spreadsheet calculations. In your own words, identify the six mathematical operations represented by this phrase. Furthermore, recall and state the rule this mnemonic provides for determining the order of operations when both multiplication and division (or addition and subtraction) appear together in the same expression.

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