How do you evaluate #5( 2+ ( - 9) + ( - 25)#?
1 Answer
Apr 2, 2017
Two possible answers are
Explanation:
There are other possibilities, but those would infer two missing brackets which is less likely.
Given:
We will need one more bracket to solve this, and that could appear in two possible places. We can solve for both.
Here we added a closing bracket at the end of the second term.
Our first activity is to get rid of the inside brackets, then the outside brackets:
Here we added a closing bracket at the end of the third term.
Our first activity is to get rid of the inside brackets, then the outside brackets: