document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=632438>Question 632438</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Equation: 9-5+5x0+3=...?  I believe the answer is 1, is that correct?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5x0=0<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5+3=8<BR>\n" );
document.write( "9-8=1 </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "In a word, no.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "5 times 0 is 0, just like you said,\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "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:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 9\ -\ (5\ +\ 5\ \cdot\ 0\ +3)\ =\ 1\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "then you would have been correct, but:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "9 minus 5 is 4\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Then \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "4 plus 3 is 7\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "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.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "You could have finished the calculation thusly:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "-5 plus 3 is -2\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "-2 plus 9 is 7\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "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:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "For this example, re-write thusly:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 9\ +\ (-5)\ +\ 5\ \cdot\ 0\ +3\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Capisce?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi}\ +\ 1\ =\ 0\"><BR>\n" );
document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it<BR>\n" );
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