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What you need to know are all the facts
about the results of operations with even
and odd numbers. They are:
even + even = even
even + odd = odd
odd + odd = even
even - even = even
even - odd = odd
odd - even = odd
odd - odd = even
even × even = even
even × odd = even
odd × odd = odd
You have here a case of this:
(odd + odd) - (even + even) =
We can replace "(odd + odd)" by "even"
and have this:
even - (even + even) =
And we can replace "(even + even)" by "even"
and have this:
even - even =
Then we can replace "even - even" by "even",
and we end up with this:
even
So the answer has to be an even number.
Of the choices you have, which are
a)45 b)54 c)35 d)53
only "b)54" is an even number. So that is
the only possible choice.
There are lots of possibilities of that resulting in 54.
For instance, here are some:
(11 + 65) - (10 + 12) = 54
(67 + 29) - (28 + 14) = 54
(47 + 79) - (20 + 52) = 54
(99 + 97) - (98 + 44) = 54
Edwin