Ella and Margaret were at a carnival. They each got a ticket for the carousel. Ella got a jumbo pretzel, and Margaret got a snow
cone. Ella had a certificate for $5 off the cost. Margaret paid the rest, which came to $12.75. Each carousel ticket costs $4, and a snow cone costs $4.50. How much is a jumbo pretzel?
First the value of the coupon needs to be added back in: 12.75+5=17.75 now the price of the carousel tickets needs to be subtracted there are two of them and they each cost $4 it can be expressed as such 17.75-2*4=9.75 order of operations dictates that multiplications are done before subtractions and the price before the snow cone is subtracted is $9.75 9.75-4.5=5.25 now the snow cone is subtracted and we are left with the price of the jumbo pretzel which is $5.25
