What is the value of four times 6 plus ten divided by 2?

Answer 1

8

Answer 2

That depends on how it is written.

4 X 6 + 10 / 2 = 29

4 X (6+ 10) / 2 = 120

(4 X 6 + 10) / 2 = 17

4 X (6 + 10 / 2) = 44

etc

You need to look to see where the parenthesis are. You start with whatever is in them and then work outward. Without them, you do the multiplication and division first, then addition and subtraction.