document.write( "Question 92589: Evaluate this 5 • 4 ÷ 2 – 42\r
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Given:
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\n" ); document.write( "5 • 4 ÷ 2 – 42
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\n" ); document.write( "If you have written the problem correctly, the correct answer is not in your list of choices.
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\n" ); document.write( "The correct answer is -32 and this is the way you do things in a string is to go through
\n" ); document.write( "it from left to right doing the multiplications and divisions as you encounter them and
\n" ); document.write( "skipping over the additions and subtractions. Once you complete the multiplications and
\n" ); document.write( "divisions, then you go back and from left to right you do the additions and subtractions
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\n" ); document.write( "So in this problem you begin with the 5 and then you multiply by 4 to get 20. Then you
\n" ); document.write( "divide the 20 by 2 to get 10. Now the problem is 10 - 42 and since there are no more multiplications
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\n" ); document.write( "10 - 42 = -32
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\n" ); document.write( "So the answer to the problem as you wrote it is -32. Did you miss a sign or leave out
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