SOLUTION: Equation: 9-5+5x0+3=...? I believe the answer is 1, is that correct? 5x0=0 5+3=8 9-8=1

Question 632438: Equation: 9-5+5x0+3=...? I believe the answer is 1, is that correct?
5x0=0
5+3=8
9-8=1
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

In a word, no.

5 times 0 is 0, just like you said,
but look at the minus sign in front of the other 5. That sign goes with the 5, not with the 5 + 3. If there had been parentheses around the 5 + 3, as in:

then you would have been correct, but:

9 minus 5 is 4

Then

4 plus 3 is 7

And it really has nothing to do with going from left to right or vice versa, it is simply a matter of keeping the sign together with its term.

You could have finished the calculation thusly:

-5 plus 3 is -2

-2 plus 9 is 7

What might help you in the future would be to write everything as an addition problem. Just forget that the operation of subtraction ever existed:

For this example, re-write thusly:

Capisce?

John

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