Question

What value is equivalent to 8 · 9 − 2 · 5?

Answer 1

It’s important to keep PEMDAS in mind (order of operations) when solving this.

PEMDAS stands for: Parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.

So when doing this problem we can see that there are two multiplication problems (8 • 9) and (2 • 5) so let’s put those to the side and solve those.

8 • 9 = 72

2 • 5 = 10

Now we can put the problem back together as 72-10

So ... 72-10=62