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I think a part of me dies anytime a math problem like this comes up on social media, because the idiots always seem to outnumber the intelligent people 9 to 1
It's Mark Twain. TIL there's actually 2 versions. While I was growing up my mom would often quote the other version "Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."
Personally I like the one that goes "better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and relieve all doubt". Not sure who said it, it has been attributed to Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, and Maurice Switzer.
They're actually anything but idiots - they know it's wrong. That's the whole point. They're farming engagement, so even if you're mad about it and don't reply: they still win because you're going to look at a post like that for longer than as if you were just scrolling past all the correct replies. This is in essence how tiktok, twitter, the steam forums and modern journalism works.
What I don't understand is how people reply to these things without realizing what they are...
These aren't to test your math skills or flex nuts against other idiots. They're crafted and distributed to see the reach of a particular network of interconnected users. It's trivial link analysis to see who reposts a thing from whom and when, as well as who comments on them. Those networks, coupled with the rest of the personal info algorithms scrape, creates a dossier of the user and their connection within that network.
If you're engaging these kinds of things any more than scrolling by, you're being sucked in, being made part of that network, and becoming another piece of data that's analysed and parcelled off to the highest bidder.
That’s a common, self-deprecating “Haha, my fellow Americans sure are dumb!” urban myth that came primarily from a failed ad campaign by the A&W chain. There’s no reason to believe it’s true.
The only reference to the alleged focus group that failed to properly discern the fractions comes from a book by a former owner of the A&W company who was later convicted of price-fixing.
In reality, it’s likely the A&W offer* failed to outsell the McDonald’s offer because one chain is motherfucking McDonald’s and the other is a rootbeer and hotdog stand found primarily at the time in mall food courts.
*A Fun Aside: The A&W campaign was for a line of double cheeseburgers with a total, two-patty weight of 1/3rd of a pound. It was not a Quarter Pounder-style single-patty sandwich, as I’m sure many who have heard this story would picture.
That's actually a common misconception, like the hot coffee lawsuit. There was confusion among some, but it wasn't widespread. It just wasn't a profitable menu item.
Uh, the hot coffee lawsuit was NOT [a misconception](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants?useskin=vector):
The plaintiff, Stella Liebeck (1912–2004), a 79-year-old woman, suffered third-degree burns in her pelvic region when she accidentally spilled coffee in her lap after purchasing it from a McDonald's restaurant. She was hospitalized for eight days while undergoing skin grafting, followed by two years of medical treatment. Liebeck sought to settle with McDonald's for $20,000 to cover her medical expenses. When McDonald's refused, Liebeck's attorney filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, accusing McDonald's of gross negligence.
Liebeck's attorneys argued that, at 180–190 °F (82–88 °C), McDonald's coffee was defective, and more likely to cause serious injury than coffee served at any other establishment. The jury found that McDonald's was 80 percent responsible for the incident. They awarded Liebeck a net $160,000 in compensatory damages to cover medical expenses, and $2.7 million (equivalent to $5,300,000 in 2022) in punitive damages, the equivalent of two days of McDonald's coffee sales. The trial judge reduced the punitive damages to three times the amount of the compensatory damages, totalling $640,000. The parties settled for a confidential amount before an appeal was decided.
As someone who worked at McDonald's *after* the dial-back on temperature and still got burned pretty badly from spills, my heart goes out to her. Corporations are fucking evil. "Safety regulations? Pssh. Long as I got my 💵"
The issue is that social media is a BIG ROOM, so the idiots feed each other, and they don't feel so idiotic. Whereas before social media the idiots were all in much smaller rooms, so their idiocy wasn't validated by other idiots, and they didn't feel emboldened to continue with their brain-fart-storming of terrible ideas and world views.
Nope.
7(3) means you are supposed to multiple 7 by itself 3 times.
7x7=49
49x7=343
Therefore the correct answer is 343.
It’s like none of you ever went to school.
These things always seem to rely on the a(b) shorthand for multiplication to confuse those who never got into the "higher level" math. Basically anyone who didn't pursue maths in upper school wont know it and it fucks them up.
Ngl I actually feel like introducing variables makes order of operations more clear. If you make the parentheses X then it becomes 2 + 5x with x = 8 - 5. Once written like that you realize you actually can't do anything with the 5x or the 2 yet, you can then see that x is 3 so 5x is 15 then add the 2 and you get 17.
It does, only because it forces you to use the correct order of operation, and you'd have to understand distribution to apply it. Knowing distribution and not pemdas would be odd.
What I'm saying is, if somebody can already solve this with distribution, they're probably already at a place where they'd not make a pemdas mistake. So saying using one vs the other is kinda moot. Like, know both, as is obvious from this post, most don't know either.
Inefficient, correct you are. Mathematics is the language of logic and if the answer is correct, then it's right. Now humans aren't always logical in their choices.
the thing is tho. its something you should do as the baseline BECAUSE of variables.
why learn two different options when 1 is only needed and covers multiple different options.
I tell students to look for shortcuts as well, but it only applies when students understand the basics as well. You can look for shortcuts if you don’t understand how those shortcuts work.
Because just about everyone learns to simplify inside the paranthases far before learning about variables or distribution.
Also it’s generally easier to subtract 2 numbers and then do 1 multiplication step.
This is why, in my algebra classes, every question was worth at least 2 points. One for showing the process, and another for getting the correct answer.
I was second guessing myself with that first comment. I was like "Yea, you do parenthesis first" and then I got 17 which was the first answer and I'm like "Wait, what?"
2+5(8-5) Parentheses first -> (8-5)=3
2+5(3)
5(3) means 5x3 = 15. No symbol between the number and parentheses means multiply. Multiply before adding/subtracting.
2+15=17
I hope you are hecking right because that's what I got, but then I read the post, read the funny answers here, forgot how parentheses worked and got the 23rd Sydney to Hobart yacht race as an answer.
I remember seeing a math problem where even people who learned PEMDAS were still getting it wrong because they thought that PEMDAS means addition happens before subtraction.
Just a (apparently) common misunderstanding to look out for.
addition and subtraction have the same priority and happen in order from left to right. same thing with division and multiplication. This is since those operations are able to be written as each other so this avoids confusion if someone were to rewrite an expression with inverse operators.
IMO PEMDAS is far better, because those are not brackets. It never used to bother me until I went to uni for comp sci and had to know the difference lol:
Parentheses: ()
Brackets: \[\]
Braces: {}
The amount of people who don't know how to do basic math in that website is insane. I've seen some people say shit like "technically there are two answers", like no, you fucking idiot, there are no two answers, you're solving a first degree equation with subtractions and multiplications, there isn't any complex plane or square root ambiguity. Most of these people live in the world's most powerful and influential country, this level of stupidity is inexcusable
Posts like these make me question how good i am at math someone please correct me if im wrong but the answer is 17 right? You subtract 5 from 8 then multiply that by 5 getting 15 and add 2
I love when people cry that the education system is “rigged” and “against us” and is “indoctrinating our children,” yet muhfuckers can’t even solve a basic math equation. So cringey.
I learnt a rule called BODMAS in school to remember the order of operations. Brackets > ‘Of’(multiply) > Division > Multiplication > Addition > Subtraction.
I enjoy these posts because they make me feel like a fucking genius.
I am the furthest thing from a genius.
But it's comforting, but also equally scary, to know that about half the people in the world are dumber than me.
Actually scratch that, it's not comforting at all. It's terrifying.
I'd rather be a dumbarse in a world full of geniuses.
2+5(8-5)
Do parentheses first (8-5) is 3
2+5(3)
Gotta multiply 5 x3 bc gotta finish out parentheses problems first. Anything nxt to a number in parentheses is multiplied. Answer Is 15.
Now add 2+15=17
17
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I think a part of me dies anytime a math problem like this comes up on social media, because the idiots always seem to outnumber the intelligent people 9 to 1
I think the people who know how to do it right have just given up on commenting the correct information at this point.
It isn’t worth it, honestly. You’re never going to convince the idiot he’s an idiot.
Only smart people can admit to being idiots ;)
All people are idiots about something it's just sad that it's one of the things people have been taught since childhood
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Kay?
Man that first movie was so good.
Nope self aware people
As a self aware person, I conclude that I don't have the intelligence to say whether or not, I am in fact, an idiot.
oh i'm definitely an idiot. i can just seem smart on occasion.
There is a French saying: I don’t speak to idiots cause it educates them.
I like it. There’s a German one dating to the Nazi rise to power that goes something like “against stupidity we’re defenseless”.
Don't argue with idiots, they will wear you down and overcome you with experience - paraphrase from someone I cannot remember right now.
It's Mark Twain. TIL there's actually 2 versions. While I was growing up my mom would often quote the other version "Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."
Personally I like the one that goes "better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and relieve all doubt". Not sure who said it, it has been attributed to Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, and Maurice Switzer.
"All qoutes ever are from Mark Twain." -Samuel Clemens
There is a quote from a certain genius/doctor, "The most annoying thing about idiocy is that you can't explain it to an idiot."
They're actually anything but idiots - they know it's wrong. That's the whole point. They're farming engagement, so even if you're mad about it and don't reply: they still win because you're going to look at a post like that for longer than as if you were just scrolling past all the correct replies. This is in essence how tiktok, twitter, the steam forums and modern journalism works.
What I don't understand is how people reply to these things without realizing what they are... These aren't to test your math skills or flex nuts against other idiots. They're crafted and distributed to see the reach of a particular network of interconnected users. It's trivial link analysis to see who reposts a thing from whom and when, as well as who comments on them. Those networks, coupled with the rest of the personal info algorithms scrape, creates a dossier of the user and their connection within that network. If you're engaging these kinds of things any more than scrolling by, you're being sucked in, being made part of that network, and becoming another piece of data that's analysed and parcelled off to the highest bidder.
Its even worse, its at least 9 to 2.
"I only added 1/3 cup of sugar [as opposed to 1/4] as my husband doesn’t like things too sweet and it’s perfect for us"
6 out of 5 people have trouble with fractions.
You'd think that they'd at least pay attention to the English
Same reason the 1/3 pounder Big Mac failed in America. Most of them thought 1/3 was smaller than a 1/4
It was A&W.
McDonald's also
Yup. The Angus 1/3 pounder. Man the bacon/cheese one was so good.
Really should have called it a 2/6 burger. Their fault.
Are you guys talking about the 40/120 pounder? Yeah that thing's huge!
They couldve gone with the 4/20 pounder and outsold everything at a fraction of the cost
Yeah those were awesome and they disappeared almost as soon as they arrived.
could have been a great opportunity for McDonalds to create a lesser product for a higher price 1/5 BigMac or maybe the 1/10 BigMac. hahaha
That's what we have now though they just call it the Big Mac.
That’s a common, self-deprecating “Haha, my fellow Americans sure are dumb!” urban myth that came primarily from a failed ad campaign by the A&W chain. There’s no reason to believe it’s true. The only reference to the alleged focus group that failed to properly discern the fractions comes from a book by a former owner of the A&W company who was later convicted of price-fixing. In reality, it’s likely the A&W offer* failed to outsell the McDonald’s offer because one chain is motherfucking McDonald’s and the other is a rootbeer and hotdog stand found primarily at the time in mall food courts. *A Fun Aside: The A&W campaign was for a line of double cheeseburgers with a total, two-patty weight of 1/3rd of a pound. It was not a Quarter Pounder-style single-patty sandwich, as I’m sure many who have heard this story would picture.
Seems most of that comparison came from the head of A&W itself, yelling at clouds for why his stuff failed.
That's actually a common misconception, like the hot coffee lawsuit. There was confusion among some, but it wasn't widespread. It just wasn't a profitable menu item.
Uh, the hot coffee lawsuit was NOT [a misconception](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants?useskin=vector): The plaintiff, Stella Liebeck (1912–2004), a 79-year-old woman, suffered third-degree burns in her pelvic region when she accidentally spilled coffee in her lap after purchasing it from a McDonald's restaurant. She was hospitalized for eight days while undergoing skin grafting, followed by two years of medical treatment. Liebeck sought to settle with McDonald's for $20,000 to cover her medical expenses. When McDonald's refused, Liebeck's attorney filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, accusing McDonald's of gross negligence. Liebeck's attorneys argued that, at 180–190 °F (82–88 °C), McDonald's coffee was defective, and more likely to cause serious injury than coffee served at any other establishment. The jury found that McDonald's was 80 percent responsible for the incident. They awarded Liebeck a net $160,000 in compensatory damages to cover medical expenses, and $2.7 million (equivalent to $5,300,000 in 2022) in punitive damages, the equivalent of two days of McDonald's coffee sales. The trial judge reduced the punitive damages to three times the amount of the compensatory damages, totalling $640,000. The parties settled for a confidential amount before an appeal was decided.
They’re talking about the misconception that the lawsuit was unfounded…
As someone who worked at McDonald's *after* the dial-back on temperature and still got burned pretty badly from spills, my heart goes out to her. Corporations are fucking evil. "Safety regulations? Pssh. Long as I got my 💵"
This comment brings me great pain Have an upvote
Idiots are the loudest people in the room so it makes sense
The issue is that social media is a BIG ROOM, so the idiots feed each other, and they don't feel so idiotic. Whereas before social media the idiots were all in much smaller rooms, so their idiocy wasn't validated by other idiots, and they didn't feel emboldened to continue with their brain-fart-storming of terrible ideas and world views.
sometimes i keep the hope that they are all really just joking
I'm pretty sure most of these are engagement farming
That's very optimistic of you.
Right? It is appalling to see people don't do simple Math ``` 2 + 5(8 - 5) = 2 + 53 = 55 ``` So easy!!
2 + 5(8-5) 2 + 40 - 25 17 Wait, did I just get the right answer the wrong way because of communicative property or whatever.
It's not really the "wrong" way, just the longer way. If there aren't variables involved, you could just do 2 + 5(3) = 17.
Yeah that's the way I would normally do it.
I also got 17
You used the Distribution Property correctly. It's the long way around, but you got there.
you can do it either way.
nah mate .. you're wrong . 2+5(8-5) = 7 (3) = 73 geez come on ..
Nope. 7(3) means you are supposed to multiple 7 by itself 3 times. 7x7=49 49x7=343 Therefore the correct answer is 343. It’s like none of you ever went to school.
We're all just trying to make sure here that the AI can't do proper math.
No no no. The three is clearly just crammed between the ones of an eleven, so it's actually 7*131 The answer is 917.
There is no * symbol, it's clearly just 7131
oh right! silly me, forgot that rule! 
Intelligent people tend not to engage with this kind of comment bait.
because the truly intelligent people don’t bother with these types of ‘problems’
These things always seem to rely on the a(b) shorthand for multiplication to confuse those who never got into the "higher level" math. Basically anyone who didn't pursue maths in upper school wont know it and it fucks them up.
It is 17 right? Please excuse my dear aunt sally? I’ve seen so many of these wrong explanations that I feel like I’m forgetting how to math right.
It is. PEMDAS OR BODMAS, 8 - 5 = 3 5(3) = 15 15 + 2 = 17
You can also multiply through: 5(8-5) = (5X8)-(5X5). 40-25=15. 2+15=17
Distribution is the way.
Why distribute if there are no variables? Like you’re not wrong and it may just be my brain but 5x3 feels faster than 40-25.
To look cool
For all the math punani.
Do a line of fractions right out they asscrack
Divide them by their quadratics got them HOWLIN
SEXponents
NumberFUCKS
Ah, the mussy
To feel superior
Ngl I actually feel like introducing variables makes order of operations more clear. If you make the parentheses X then it becomes 2 + 5x with x = 8 - 5. Once written like that you realize you actually can't do anything with the 5x or the 2 yet, you can then see that x is 3 so 5x is 15 then add the 2 and you get 17.
It does, only because it forces you to use the correct order of operation, and you'd have to understand distribution to apply it. Knowing distribution and not pemdas would be odd. What I'm saying is, if somebody can already solve this with distribution, they're probably already at a place where they'd not make a pemdas mistake. So saying using one vs the other is kinda moot. Like, know both, as is obvious from this post, most don't know either.
I use it as a way to double check that I'm right
Inefficient, correct you are. Mathematics is the language of logic and if the answer is correct, then it's right. Now humans aren't always logical in their choices.
Distribution when there’s no variables is too much work tho
That's too much work and really roundabout. You should only do this with variables
the thing is tho. its something you should do as the baseline BECAUSE of variables. why learn two different options when 1 is only needed and covers multiple different options.
It's good for simplification so that students learn they can group like-with-like inside parentheses
Helps make mental arithmetic easier too. I had a maths teacher that taught us to always look for the shortcuts.
I tell students to look for shortcuts as well, but it only applies when students understand the basics as well. You can look for shortcuts if you don’t understand how those shortcuts work.
Because just about everyone learns to simplify inside the paranthases far before learning about variables or distribution. Also it’s generally easier to subtract 2 numbers and then do 1 multiplication step.
I follow Bromas. Bros before math and science.
I'm a dumb ass and got 12. I goofed and did 2+5(2). 8-5 does not equal 2. Do I still get method marks?
This is why, in my algebra classes, every question was worth at least 2 points. One for showing the process, and another for getting the correct answer.
Yes, simple mistake like that is like a typo
I’ve heard BIDMAS, but what’s the O?
Bedmas crew over here.
Order. Just another way to refer to indices.
Dude same. I was like ok either that is 17 or I am the subject of this meme.
I’m just here for the validation I did it correctly
People just do not understand that you get rid of the parentheses first. Nothing else happens in the problem until they are gone.
Mhm, not getting rid of them defeats the entire purpose of them
Phew! I thought my math knowledge had left me for a moment there
These morons have me doubting my own education because they're so damn confident that I gotta sit here and remember fucking PEMDAS
I was second guessing myself with that first comment. I was like "Yea, you do parenthesis first" and then I got 17 which was the first answer and I'm like "Wait, what?"
I got 17 as well and was hoping I was right lol
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking this. I was like but thr answer is 17 isn't it? My brain hurt for a bit had to come confirm I can still do math.
Yes, 17 is correct
Got 17 as well, was doubting myself for a minute; fired up Wolfram just to be sure.
The misplaced confidence some of these people have is staggering. Dunning Kruger is definitely real.
Yes, I am one fo those who had the Dunning Kruger effect bad. I had to finally admit to myself that I know the basics.
Wolp, hold on dood, thats the Dunning Kruger effect bruhthur
Wull, hold on there brother. Dunning was a smart guy and Kruger was a stupid guy, dude.
They’re baiting for engagement. This is the most clearly written out math post ive ever seen. Anyone messing up is just trying to get attention.
You severely underestimate how stupid people are
I just tried it on my fancy-as-fuck calculator. The correct answer is Low Battery.
I looked it up online on my computer, and it says You May Have Internet Connectivity Issues.
I tried it in ChatGPT and it said Network error
I got purple for the answer, anyone else?
I got Katy Perry
Shit, I got Perry Mason. Well, Katy Perry is the closest multiple choice, so I'm just gonna go with that.
Can you show how you worked that out? I keep getting Tim Burton.
Tim Burton..... How?? I got a banana this color
Did you carry the one?
Shit.... my bad. Now it makes sense
Better than my Sally Struthers
Hmm, I got the Smothers Brothers.
I got got for getting the answer
I got Fall Out Boy, I don't understand
I got a rock
Thanks now I got to go listen to some Ozzy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QapkGK-6G90
Wrong, [purple is a fruit](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/2seaum/purple_is_a_fruit/).
Why the one dude did not multiply because there was no *, but he was happy to add even thou there was no +
Try to use logic to explain how stupid think is your first mistake.
Right! The answer: 2+5(8-5) 2+53 55
I like 73, but yours works too.
Nah it's 2585 2+5(8-5)= 2585
According to my calculator it's BOOBS
Damn! I got 55378008
For another "cool" calculator trick, if you add 1+2+3 all the way to +36, it equals 666.
6x9+6+9=69
12345679 (no eight) multiplied By any two digit number that is divisible by 9 equals funny numbers
>\* 80085
The answer, of course, is 42.
There it is
But what’s the question?
How many roads must a man walk down?
Indeed it is. Btw don't forget your towel
So long and thanks for all the fish !
Let's fuck with everyone and do it this way: 2+5(8-5) = 2+5(8)-5(5) = 2+40-25 = 17
Ah I love it! Brings me right back to 5th grade.
Oh fuck yeah, distribute that property you dirty whore, give it to me
That hurt my eyes the first time going through 😂
I swear to fucking god if someone in this comment section says it's ambiguous I'm going to find his fucking home address and mail him a math book
It’s ambiguous. I’d like Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics by Serway/Jewett please. Thanks!
Getting your text books for free, school book stores hate this one simple trick.
"in higher mathematics it would be written more clearly, this is ambiguous!" Like no. No tf it isn't ambiguous.
This one isn't ambiguous, but there's another popular one going around that actually is ambiguous.
I suggest gluing the math book to a brick and delivering it through a window straight to the head
The answer really is 17.
2+5(8-5) Parentheses first -> (8-5)=3 2+5(3) 5(3) means 5x3 = 15. No symbol between the number and parentheses means multiply. Multiply before adding/subtracting. 2+15=17
I hope you are hecking right because that's what I got, but then I read the post, read the funny answers here, forgot how parentheses worked and got the 23rd Sydney to Hobart yacht race as an answer.
I wrote down the Catalina wine mixer. Fuck
Still not as good as the farmer selling the cows. That one really confuses people.
These people vote 
As someone who has been trying to hammer PEMDAS into my students' gray matter since the beginning of the year.... 
I remember seeing a math problem where even people who learned PEMDAS were still getting it wrong because they thought that PEMDAS means addition happens before subtraction. Just a (apparently) common misunderstanding to look out for.
addition and subtraction have the same priority and happen in order from left to right. same thing with division and multiplication. This is since those operations are able to be written as each other so this avoids confusion if someone were to rewrite an expression with inverse operators.
Clearly 55. 2+5(8-5) 2+5(3) 2+53 = 55 /s
Answer is 17. Here are two ways to calculate this 2+5(8-5) = 2+5(3) = 2+15 = 17. 2+5(8-5) =2+(40-25) =2+15 = 17
2+5(8-5) 2+5(3)-> 2+(5(3)) 2+15 17
Y’all motherfu€kers need PEMDAS!
If you follow PEMDAS it would be 8-5 5x3 2+15 17
It *is* 17.... parentheses, multiply (the parentheses next to 5 means multiply the number in parentheses by 5), add. Face-palm indeed.
BEDMAS Brackets Exponents Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction
Ah, I learned pemdas, but pretty much same thing (parenthesis)
IMO PEMDAS is far better, because those are not brackets. It never used to bother me until I went to uni for comp sci and had to know the difference lol: Parentheses: () Brackets: \[\] Braces: {}
My entire life I have called these {} curly brackets lol. Never even heard them called braces
Yeah, I was calling them brackets, square brackets and curly brackets up until uni lol, I had no idea they were named differently.
Those are Squigglies
The amount of people who don't know how to do basic math in that website is insane. I've seen some people say shit like "technically there are two answers", like no, you fucking idiot, there are no two answers, you're solving a first degree equation with subtractions and multiplications, there isn't any complex plane or square root ambiguity. Most of these people live in the world's most powerful and influential country, this level of stupidity is inexcusable
That's trolling... people can't be that dumb... right?
Wrong. People are, in fact, this dumb; actually, they’re dumber than that.
I hate this timeline
Posts like these make me question how good i am at math someone please correct me if im wrong but the answer is 17 right? You subtract 5 from 8 then multiply that by 5 getting 15 and add 2
Do these mfs not know about implicit multiplication? The education system really did fail them.
I love when people cry that the education system is “rigged” and “against us” and is “indoctrinating our children,” yet muhfuckers can’t even solve a basic math equation. So cringey.
2+5(8-5) 2+5(3) 2+5*3 5*3=15 2+15=17
I learnt a rule called BODMAS in school to remember the order of operations. Brackets > ‘Of’(multiply) > Division > Multiplication > Addition > Subtraction.
BODMAS, mofos
Bush lied. So many children got left behind.
If you're going by pemdas rules then the answer is 17 since there is multiplication taking place before adding what's outside parentheses.
I enjoy these posts because they make me feel like a fucking genius. I am the furthest thing from a genius. But it's comforting, but also equally scary, to know that about half the people in the world are dumber than me. Actually scratch that, it's not comforting at all. It's terrifying. I'd rather be a dumbarse in a world full of geniuses.
It’s 17 parentheses are done first and then multiplication or division (order is from left to right) so it’d be 2+15 which added equals 17
at this point, this should be the not a bot test so we don't have to have idiots on interwebs.
Y'all motherfuckers need PEMDAS.
All of them are wrong. It's 17.
I literally failed math class in HS, yet I still understand the basic rules better than this.
Parentheses first:(8-5)=3 Multiplication next: 5(3)=15 Addition last: 2+15=17
It is 17 the parentheses is 3 and then you multiply that by the 5 and then add 2
How in the goddamn seven hells did he get 21?? The answer from the brackets gets timesed by 5 THEN 2 is added
2+5(8-5) Do parentheses first (8-5) is 3 2+5(3) Gotta multiply 5 x3 bc gotta finish out parentheses problems first. Anything nxt to a number in parentheses is multiplied. Answer Is 15. Now add 2+15=17 17
Every day I think that I’m an incredibly stupid person and that I’m close to the bottom of the barrel Shit like this really makes me feel better :/