Question

Simplify
​ 24÷2−6+8÷2 ​

Answer 1

24/2-6+8/2
12-6+8/2
12-6+4
6+4
10

Final answer: 10
Remember that according to the order of operations, perform division first, followed by addition and subtraction.

Answer 2

You can solve this buy looking at the terms of this expression. A term is seperated by a "+" or "-" sign. Here, we have 3 terms ("24/2," "6," and "8/2"). What we should do now is simplify each term and then combine them using the proper signs.

24/2=12
6
8/2=4

24/2-6+8/2=12-6+4=6+4=10

Using the math above, we can see that the solution to this expression is 10.