Is x^2 in a question imply parantheses?

[user4544]

This question got be thinking … do we assume that x^2 has parantheses? For this question it doesn’t matter but let’s say for A, would you assume that you’re doing

-1 + -1^2 → -1 + -1 = -2
OR
-1 + (-1)^2 → -1 + 1 = 0

Both don’t yield the correct answer here but just wondering

[cylverixxx]

Well if x= -1 then you’d want to replace all instances of x with -1, so it’d be (-1)^2 instead of just -1^2

Is x^2 in a question imply parantheses?

Sure