you collect baseball cards . suppose you start out with 19 . maria takes half of one more than the number of baseball cards you have . since you ' re nice , you give peter 1 baseball card . since his father makes baseball cards , paul decides to triple your baseball cards . how many baseball cards do you have at the end ?
"solution start with 19 baseball cards . maria takes half of one more than the number of baseball cards you have . so maria takes half of 19 + 1 which is 10 , so you ' re left with 19 - 10 = 9 . peter takes 1 baseball card from you : 9 - 1 = 8 baseball cards . paul triples the number of baseball cards you have : 8 ã — 3 = 24 baseball cards . so you have 24 at the end . correct answer : e"
multiply(subtract(subtract(subtract(19, const_4), const_4), 1), const_3)