Viral Math Problem Baffles The Internet; Can You Solve It?
August 6, 2019
Can you solve it? 🤔
Posted by FOX 10 Phoenix on Thursday, August 1, 2019
Can you solve this math problem? The math equation has since gone viral on Twitter causing major confusion and mass debate over the answer. Mathematicians and physicists even went nuts about it.
Depending on where in the world you learned math, as Mashable reported, determines how you can solve the problem.
According to Fox 10,
There is the PEMDAS method: the order of operations is Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division,Addition, Subtraction, typically from left to right.
There is also the BODMAS method:Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.
So, the answer is 1.
The answer also is 16.
Is that what you got?