Can someone help me with this step by step

Come on!! You've got to do some of the work.
What is the value of the first bracket?
What is the value of the second bracket?
So what does that now reduce down to?
 
Everything is simple arithmetic there, (10+ 3- 8)- 9= (13- 8)- 9= 5- 9= -4
except that last part: (8\4- 2)!

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean since "\" is not a standard arithmetic symbol.

I might guess that it was intended to be "/", division. If that is the case then 8/4- 2= 2- 2= 0 but I would be left with the uncomfortable feeling that you really meant 8/(4- 2)= 8/2= 4.
 
Subhotosh Khan said:
What have you tried - please share your work.

Have you been taught that you need to first evaluate the terms inside the parentheses?
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(10 + 3 · 8) - 32 + (8 ÷ 4 · 2)


10 + 24 -9 + 8 /8
34 -9 + 1

the answer i got is 26 but the answer is suppose to be 29 can you show me where i went wrong
 
10 + 3 · 8) - 32 + (8 ÷ 4 · 2)


10 + 24 -9 + 8 /8
34 -9 + 1 = 26 but they said the answer is wrong
 
Mamluke13 said:
(10 + 3 · 8) - 32 + (8 ÷ 4 · 2)


10 + 24 -9 + 8 /8
34 -9 + 1

the answer i got is 26 but the answer is suppose to be 29 can you show me where i went wrong
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In the original post you wrote:

(10 +3 - 8) -9 +(8 \ 4 - 2) ........... the operation between 3 and 8 was SUBTRACTION.

Now you are writing:

(10 +3 . 8) -9 +(8 \ 4 - 2) ........... the operation between 3 and 8 is MULTIPLICATION.

Which is it?
 
You, several times now, written "a\b" to mean, I guess, "a divided by b". Is there any reason you are not writing "a/b"?
 
Mamluke13 said:
(10 + 3 · 8) - 32 + (8 ÷ 4 · 2)

10 + 24 -9 + 8 /8
34 -9 + 1

the answer i got is 26 but the answer is suppose to be 29 can you show me where i went wrong
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I corrected your 32 to what it apparently is, 32. (Use the x2 button on the tool bar.)

Your error is in the last part. You do division and multiplication from left to right, so 8 / 4 * 2 means (8 / 4) * 2 = 2 * 2 = 4, not 8 / (4 * 2) = 8 / 8 = 1.
 
Subhotosh Khan said:
In the original post you wrote:

(10 +3 - 8) -9 +(8 \ 4 - 2) ........... the operation between 3 and 8 was SUBTRACTION.

Now you are writing:

(10 +3 . 8) -9 +(8 \ 4 - 2) ........... the operation between 3 and 8 is MULTIPLICATION.

Which is it?
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Multiplcation
 
Dr.Peterson said:
I corrected your 32 to what it apparently is, 32. (Use the x2 button on the tool bar.)

Your error is in the last part. You do division and multiplication from left to right, so 8 / 4 * 2 means (8 / 4) * 2 = 2 * 2 = 4, not 8 / (4 * 2) = 8 / 8 = 1.
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I appreciate I did the division wrong
 
i finished the first one i got the division wrong
(54 - 10 + 4) ÷ 6 + 4 · 4
(44 +4) \ 22

48 \ 22

1.2

but they say the answer is 24 can yall help me step by step
 
Mamluke13 said:
i finished the first one i got the division wrong
(54 - 10 + 4) ÷ 6 + 4 · 4
(44 +4) \ 22
48 \ 22
1.2

but they say the answer is 24 can yall help me step by step
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You have to do the addition after the division and the multiplication:

(54 - 10 + 4) ÷ 6 + (4 · 4) = (48) ÷ 6 + (16) = 6 + 16 = 24

(And stop using the backslash for division -- that confuses everyone.)
 
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