^ means exponent so 2^2 would be the second 2 on top of the first * means times or multiply
in order of operations by

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order of operations- parenthesis exponents multiplication/division then addition/subtraction. According to this we do exponents first thus we get 3+ 4 +3*4 -1, now according to the order of operations we multiply next, 3 + 4 + 12 - 1 now we just add/subtract from left to right = 18
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