If parenthesis has a higher precedence then why is increment operator solved first?

Question

I have a single line code,

int a = 10;
a = ++a * ( ++a + 5);

My expected output was 12 * (11 + 5) = 192 ,but I got 187

Answer 1

Expressions are evaluated left to right. Parentheses (and precedence) just express grouping, they don't express ordering of evaluation.

So

 11 * (12 + 5)
++a   ++a

equals

187