This Tricky Math Quiz Is Driving The Internet Crazy

Are you a math genius or do you struggle with basic addition and subtraction? Give this tricky quiz a go – it might be harder than you expect!

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I have been asked in the comments numerous times, why step three just calculates left to right?

“Shouldn’t you do addition first?”.

So I am adding this explanation section to the top of the article (it is similar to information in the linked related posts).

Order of operations (excluding the first two parts of Parenthesis/Brackets and Exponents/Orders/Indices) is [DM] or [MD] followed by [AS] or [SA].

So, Multiplication and Division can be done at the same time and then Addition and Subtraction can be done at the same time.

The correct answer is as follows:

Question:

Division first : 6*(5-4+1)

Left to right: 6*(1+1)

Left to right: 6*2

Answer: 12