You do them in the order of operations, for example, on the 1st one you did 3x5 first and got 15, and then you added 2 and got a total of 17. On the second one, you did2x4 which is 8 and the you added 3 and made it a total of 11. So basically you do the last 2 boxes first, the add/subtract the first from the total of the other 2.