How do you evaluate #200 + 32 \times 5#?

1 Answer
Oct 12, 2017

360

Explanation:

In the order of things multiply 'is more important' than plus or minus. So we do that 'action' first.
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Step 1

#32xx5#

Note that 5 is the same as #10xx1/2#

So instead of #32xx5# we can write

#32xx10xx1/2color(white)("d") =color(white)("d") 320xx1/2color(white)("d")=color(white)("d")160#

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Step 2

#200+160color(white)("d")=color(white)("d")360#