Polynomial

I need to know what the value of this polynomial will be if x=2, x=3, x=4. For some reason I'm coming up with the result being the exact same as the x-value, and am not sure if that is a semantic error or not.

>>6
The fashion for past dozen or so years is to make high school math revolve around graphing calculators.  >>3 was kidding.  If you are doing calculation by hand, are you following correct order of operations?