Question

Order of Operations Question!
I am vary perplexed right now...I have gone through every possibility I can think of here and I am getting the answer 23. The answer is supposed to be -19 though...question below.

Answer 1

25-(16-9)+7-2

Answer 2

Which furthers my point...

Answer 3

i got 23 O.o

Answer 4

23 is the right answer

Answer 5

23 toooooooooooo.......

Answer 6

Apparently no. Unless they put in the wrong answer...

Answer 7

y do u say the answer is supposed to be 19 O.o

Answer 8

i'm getting......

Answer 9

This is for my programming class. We're going over Order of Operations for programming, but they say the answer is -19 when everyone is getting 23...

Answer 10

haha....

Answer 11

Oh so it is from programming>??

Answer 12

Then the answer will be -19..

Answer 13

unless they want you distribute the - sign before the (16-9) making it -16+9

Answer 14

How so?

Answer 15

Programming has different rules...

Answer 16

as written, it is 23... are you s'posed to read the expression as the input given by the user?

Answer 17

25-(16-9)+7-2
25-16+9+7-2
9+9+7-2
18+7-2
25-2
23
GRRR ITS STILL 23

Answer 18

Ok. I should probably ask this in the computer science section then...
@dpaInc Not sure...
THis was like a quick evaluation before I move on. I got everything but this one right...

Answer 19

ie, will the user input the expression?

Answer 20

Ummm no? THis is all I was given to work with:

Answer 21

math and computer science CLASH!!!!

Answer 22

lol...I asked it in the math section since it seemed a lot more like math than programming to me...

Answer 23

Is there something I'm missing...?

Answer 24

What does Part 2 say??

Answer 25

It just talks about what modulus is...here is a screenshot:

Answer 26

what language is this?
I notice your order of ops does not define exponentiation, nor the effect of parens.
but with mult and div having higher precedence than add/subtract there is no way to get negative 19 out of this expression.

Answer 27

Java

Answer 28

Is there no possible way for it to be -19?

Answer 29

I just ran
class Main
{
public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
{
java.io.BufferedReader r = new java.io.BufferedReader (new java.io.InputStreamReader (System.in));
String s;
System.out.print(5*5-(4*4-3*3)+14/2-6/3);

}
}

and it printed out 23

Answer 30

Really? I'm going to e-mail my teacher then and see what she says since it seems that it should indeed by 23...

Answer 31

Thanks everyone for verifying for me...

Answer 32

For all of those that worked on this. Apparently the website had a typo...the question was supposedly supposed to be:
\[5^2 - (4^2 - 3^2)^2 + 14/2 - 6/3\]

Answer 33

thanks... i was interested to see if i was going crazy or not...:)