Have you seen that math problem floating around the internet that no one can seem to agree on? In this blog, we’re going to solve the infamous question: 8 ÷ 2 (2+2) once and for all.
The reason this problem is breaking the internet is that everyone in the world seems to be arguing all about PEMDAS.
– Parentheses
– Exponents
– Multiplication
– Division
– Addition
– Subtraction
Some people have also learned alternate forms of PEMDAS such as GEMDAS (US) or BODMAS (UK, India, Bangladesh, Australia, other English-speaking countries), stirring up even more confusion when solving this problem. The problem is that the person who wrote this problem purposefully wrote it in a way so that people on the internet would argue over it. Normally you wouldn’t see this type of problem on the ACT, SAT , or any high school math in general because the division symbol isn’t used as much in that level of schooling. This problems needs to be more clear in what 8 is being divided by and could use some parentheses or brackets to be less confusing.
Our solution to this problem would be:
8 ÷ 2 (2+2) =
8 ÷ 2 (4) =
8 ÷ 8 =
1.
