Difficult Equation Puts Adults’ High School Level Math Skills To The Test
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Ready for your hint? Remember your PEMDAS order of operations.
What do you think the answer is? 3 or 12?
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If you used the PEMDAS rule you would have to do the question in the parentheses first, which is 8 ÷ 4, which equals 2.
Then you must shift over to the left equation and do 24 ÷ 4= 6.
Then you have to multiply 6 x 2 which equals 12 and there is your answer!
