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TSI Math: Handling Negative Signs When Evaluating an Expression 2 Views


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Evaluate the expression when p = -2.


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00:03

Okay sy mash bumpers Next up evaluate the expression Three

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people us for over five plus p when p is

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negative too The whistle blows Yep there it is time

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for a substitution The variable peel it's worn out so

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replace it with the given value of negative too to

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avoid sign error penalties Yeah place the value in parentheses

00:26

it's always good discipline to do there so we're going

00:28

to go three times the quantity negative two plus four

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and then five plus quantity negative too Best game plan

00:34

here's some five numerator and denominator separately in deal fraction

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at the end and the numerator start with the multiplication

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because multiplication outranks addition in the pen doss order of

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operations member is a movie about that somewhere Alright so

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it gives us negative six plus four and then denominator

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Here is five plus thing to our five moneys to

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sew on top we've got what is that negative too

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and on the bottom Then we've got the three so

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that's it so it's negative two thirds that's it it's

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a slam dunk All right we came we shmoop upped 00:01:03.701 --> [endTime] We got the right answer

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