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Evaluate 9 ÷ 3[(18 − 10) − 22].
plz help i'm terrible at algebra

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Answer: the answer is actually 12.

User Lukas Rotter
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Answer:

-42

Explanation:

Your calculator can help you with this third-grade arithmetic problem. (If your calculator does not give this result (some may not), then recycle it and get one that does.)

The parentheses tell you to do the operations they contain first. Doing that reduces the problem to ...

= 9/3(8-22) = 9/3(-14)

The order of operations tells you to do these operations (multiplication and division) in the order they appear, left to right. So, you do the division first, then the multiplication:

= 3(-14)

= -42

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Evaluate 9 ÷ 3[(18 − 10) − 22]. plz help i'm terrible at algebra-example-1
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