How do you simplify 50 + 24 ÷ 2 × 10 − 15?

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Answer 1 · 2016-06-20T19:04:05

155

The first things to do is to count the number of TERMS.
These are separated by + and - minus signs.

Find an answer for each term first and then in the last step, add or subtract the answers to get the final result.

#50 color(orange)+ 24÷2xx10 color(orange)- 15 " has 3 terms"#

#color(blue)50 + color(red)(24÷2xx10) - color(purple)15 " get 3 answers"#

#=color(blue)50 + color(red)(12xx10) - color(purple)15#

#=color(blue)50 + color(red)(120) - color(purple)15 " work left to right"#

#=155#