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question  Answers by Toby B.  Unsure how to set up an equation
for a word problem. (answer)  To solve for the value of the
check you must take into account that the teller transposed the
dollars and cents.  (e.g. gave you 41.56 when the check was
supposed to be 56.41). This means that you must represent the
dollars and cents as different variables within the same number
(e.g. $d.c)...  5*10+-18=n+55 (answer)  Remember the rules for
order of operations: Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication,
Division, Addition, Subtraction (PEMDAS) There aren't any
Parentheses or Exponents,, so the next step is Multiplication
and Division. 5 times 10 is 50, so the new equation is 50 + -18
= n + 55  Next...  How do you simplify this? (answer)  Assuming
the original problem is: [(m/4)*(n/3)]-1 divided by
[(-5m/-3)*(n4)]2 The numerator becomes  (mn/12)-1. Any fraction
to the -1 power is just flipped, so this becomes 12/mn The
denominator becomes (-5mn4/-3)2  Squaring a fra