
Originally Posted by
catchdwind
I also made the same mistake in my 1st calculation to get a wrong ans of 4.
But free your mind & look at it this way using the elementary BODMAS rule:
The last 1 tks care of 0 to account for M (1x0=0)
A is accounted for next b4 S in bodMAS
So it reduces to: 10 - 1 + 5
Which eva way you simplify from, you'll get 14.
10 + (-1 + 5) = 10 + 4 = 14
Or
(10 - 1) + 5 = 9 + 5 = 14
Or
(10 + 5) - 1 = 15 - 1 = 14