document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1063107>Question 1063107</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> I have the following problem:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "3x5+4-2x2+6-4=15\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I need to insert parentheses and grouping symbols to make this equation true.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I have tried many different ways, and been unable to get it to be true.  \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Please help!!\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Even my mom (a teacher) and my sister (in the 9th grade) have tried to help me and have been unable to solve this.  We have tried bracketing the 3 and 5 together, and to find a way to get the rest to form zero, we have tried bracketing another way to keep an odd number, but have been unable to find a final combination of brackets to form 15.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Thanks. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "How about this?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "      = 3x(9) - (2x(8)-4)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "       = 27 - (16 - 4)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "       = 27 - 12<BR>\n" );
document.write( "       = 15\r<BR>\n" );
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