you collect baseball cards . suppose you start out with 21 . 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 21 baseball cards . maria takes half of one more than the number of baseball cards you have . so maria takes half of 21 + 1 which is 11 , so you ' re left with 21 - 11 = 10 . peter takes 1 baseball card from you : 10 - 1 = 9 baseball cards . paul triples the number of baseball cards you have : 9 ã — 3 = 27 baseball cards . so you have 27 at the end . correct answer : e"
multiply(subtract(subtract(subtract(21, const_4), const_4), 1), const_3)