Question

What is 50 plus 30 divided by 4

Answer 1

I believe that the correct answer is 57.5.

Explanation:

If you do the problem straight up the answer will be 20, but if you use order of operations (or PEMDAS) the answer will be 57.5.

Answer 2

Answer: 57.5

Step-by-step explanation: The first thing you need to know about the order of operations is that multiplication and division come before addition and subtraction.

So in this problem, we are going to divide before we add.

Since 30 divided by 4 is 7.5, our next step will read 50 + 7.5 and 50 + 7.5 simplifies to 14.