Question

How do you insert parentheses to make `35+4^2-6-3=48` true?

Answer 1

`5+4^2-(6-3)=48`

Explanation:

As far as I'm concerned, there's no systematic approach to this, you kinda just have to play around with the parenthesis and see what you get.

I tried this and noticed if we have the expression

`35+4^2-(6-3)`

This will be equal to `48` because we can simplify the parenthesis and `4^2` to now have

`35+16-3`

This is the same thing as `51-3`, or `48`, which is what we have on the other side of the equal sign.

Therefore, our equation should look like this:

`5+4^2-(6-3)=48`

Hope this helps!