Jerry is correct. It is 30. The sneakers are valued at 10.... The boy is 5... And the cone is 4.
The order of operations is powers & parenthesis from left to right then addition & subtraction from left to right. So 10 + 5 × 4 = 10 + 20 = 30.
a snarky kid wears out his shoes after eating too many ice cream cones?
To quote Charlie Brown.. I got a rock.
Shoe =5
Man = 5
Boquet = 2
5x2= 10
10+5=15
DirtFarmer
Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
The pair of sneakers is 10, but what is the price of one sneaker? If you went into a shoe store and tried to buy one sneaker, what would they charge you?
Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
DirtFarmer wrote:
The pair of sneakers is 10, but what is the price of one sneaker? If you went into a shoe store and tried to buy one sneaker, what would they charge you?
Well, $5 for a man looks pretty reasonable
Bridges
Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA
5 (1 shoe) + 19 (boy 5, shoes 10, cones 4) =24 x 2 (value of 1 cone) = 48
My first answer of 12 overlooked that the boy was wearing shoes and holding cones and the multiplication instead of addition as noted by randave2001, I wasn't very observant. I believe he has the right answer at 43 assuming that the boy wearing shoes and holding cones is additive. Arithmetic precedence negates the need for parentheses.
Rule of order
This means that you should do what is possible within parentheses first, then exponents, then multiplication and division (from left to right), and then addition and subtraction (from left to right).
5+(19*2)=43
randave2001 wrote:
OK, I changed my mind. Here is what I come up with:
2 shoes = 10 therefore 1 shoe =5
Boy = 5
2 bouquets = 4 therefore 1 bouquet = 2
Final formula is:
1 shoe + (boy holding 2 bouquets and wearing 2 shoes) X 1 bouquet which would numerically be 5 + (5+4+10) X 2 or 5+19X2. Using the MDAS method of solving that would then be 5+38=43 (final answer).
Does holding the bouquets and wearing shoes count as a number?
I could not figure out what that meant.
Thank you for explaining it and it does make sense, I guess.
If so that is good to know as I could not figure what that all meant.
Does shoes etc add or multiply?
Thank you for the excellent explanation.
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