Can you solve this problem? “8÷2(2+2).”
Easy, right?
That depends.
The equation went viral online this week on Twitter causing major confusion over the right answer.
Experts say that depending on where in the world you learned math determines how you can solve the problem, there is the PEMDAS method and the BODMAS method.
With that in mind, the answer is 1.
The answer also is 16.
Since u all don’t know how to solve that math problem pic.twitter.com/hbbmSMUcm9
— look @ pinned ! (@j00nieT__T) July 30, 2019
Arguing with a cat on the internet about a math problem is this how far we've fallen as a society pic.twitter.com/VctKjXql8I
— Society Squirrel (@BackToSquare1_) July 31, 2019