Sender: Ken Rabley

Hi, hoping you can help. Dispute among co-workers. Tell me, what is the correct answer to the following question:

Seems this is the question for eligibility in a contest...We have come up with various solutions, all which may be correct.

Thanks for your immediate help.

K Rabley

The standard order of precedence is to first perform the operations inside parentheses, then multiplication and divisions and finally any additions and subtractions. Thus for your problem I would get