the difference of eleven and four times five

Answer 1

11-4x5 = 11-20 = -9 or you could treat the "difference" as always positive, the absolute value of -9, or 9. There's 9 units difference between 11 and 20.

multiplication is done first then subtraction or the difference. Otherwise,

it could have been (11-4) x 5 = 7x5=35. But you'd need parentheses to get that answer.

This problems has no parentheses.

The order of operations is "PEMDAS" Parentheses first, then exponents, then multiplication, division, addition and subtraction last