Confusing...

Sadly, this is actually true, people actually don't know simple math and operation order.

And they ask me why I hold such low expectations for the future 🤦.

Since the correct mathematical answer isn't one of the options, the people picking the other options are representing a real resistance to the order of mathematical logic that binds us.

The real answer is 14 because I'm 14 and this is deep.

He looks like he just walked straight out of Idiocracy

Pemdas isn't as arbitrary as people in this thread think it is.

I love maths, and I'm going to butcher any attempt to explain why pemdas isnt totally random. But you can look it up if you wanna know more I guess

Besides no one ever uses that notation - by the time you learn about quadratics, you leave multiplication symbols out of the equation entirely and much of the notation changes shape, with division exclusively being expressed as negative powers or fractions.

At that point you aren't going to make mistakes, since each hyperlevel uses a different style of notation. Pemdas is used to teach 4 year olds, and it's fucking dumb. What happens with a log, or sine function. Don't even get me started on integrals and derivatives.

Pemdas is shit, but not because it's abirtary. In fact it's shit because it's a shithole acyromn

I understand why people get 16. But how do they get 14, 15 and... 13???? Trolling, right?

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BEDMAS says you do multiplication before addition, so it's 10.

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally, muthafuckahs!!

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people here are talking about pemdas and bedmas and i’m literally that meme with plain old dmas.

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Go brrrrrr

Checked with my old basic calculator, the answer is indeed 16 😂

Strich vor Punkt.

If they wanted the multiplication done first they should have put it first if they wanted it done separately they should have put it in brackets. Not my fault some maths guy invented a specific order to do sums in who the fuck cares oh my god we read left to right fucking hell