Problem of the Week, # 4

Happy Monday! This will be short and sweet:-)

In this week's problem, students are given 2 scenarios and are asked to write an "order of operations" expression to match each scenario. They are then asked to find the solution to the problem, by evaluating the expression they wrote.

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