PEMDAS
Multiplication: 2 + 5 - 18=
Addition: 7-18=
Subtraction: -11
Answer=-11
34+50+50+50-60+22
You add everything except 60 because deposits mean add money to the account. You subtract 60 because a withdrawal is taking money out of the account. There are three 50s because you deposit $50 each day for 3 days.
Answer:
m<9=130 it also equal to 180 so 130-180 makes m<4= 50
Answer: 0.6 is the answer
You have not given us any of the steps that Ricardo took to simplify the
expression, and you also haven't given us the list of choices that includes
the description of his mistake, so you're batting O for two so far.
Other than those minor details, the question is intriguing, and it certainly
draws me in.
If Ricardo made a mistake in simplifying that expression, I'm going to say that
it was most likely in the process of removing the parentheses in the middle.
Now you understand that this is all guess-work, because of all the stuff that you
left out when you copied the question, but I think he probably forgot that the 3x
operates on everything inside the parentheses.
He probably wrote that 3x (x-3) is
either 3x² - 3
or x - 9x .
In reality, when properly simplified,
3x (x - 3) = 3x² - 9x .
