You could write the first expression as (2*3) + 4, but it's unnecessary.
Parens control the order of evaluation when Excel's standard operator precedence doesn't do what you want. Your parens were unnecessary because Excel was already going to evaluate the expression the way that the additional parens indicated.
I'm actually practicing how to handly this kind of formula which has lots of brackets required.... In this scenario...'m trying to check if target is met by an employee which is 0.15 or 9mins. if task is not completed within 9 mins then 0 points else target-(score * 24)-target)) * yeild . I hope i make some sense...
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