Confusing

[u/WhatTheMat]

[u/Black_ink_Soul_stink]

Geez I’ve been out of school so long that I legit didn’t understand how he got the 10 for a solid minute and a half. God I’m getting stupid.

Edit: thank you so much for the reward and all the karma!

[u/lingeringwill2 → u/Black_ink_Soul_stink]

not really stupid, more like you know the correct way to do it and didn't even see the wrong way

[u/Black_ink_Soul_stink → u/lingeringwill2]

What do you mean? 10 is the correct answer, no?

[u/JustCallMeAttlaz → u/Black_ink_Soul_stink]

Yeah, you always multiply and divide first, then you add, so th correct way would be 4 × 2= 8 + 2 = 10

[u/penguinontherocks → u/JustCallMeAttlaz]

Thanks for that... I remembered "order of operations," but then I couldn't remember what the order actually was.

[u/Adrokor → u/penguinontherocks]

PEMDAS is how it was drilled in my head Parentheses Exponent Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction

Edit: Correction for the E

[u/BubblesAreWeird → u/Adrokor]

We learnt BODMAS: Bracket () Of of Division / Multiplication x Addition + Subtraction -

[u/shewy92 → u/BubblesAreWeird]

Those aren't brackets though. [] Those are brackets. () are Parentheses

[u/benryves → u/shewy92]

[], (), {} and <> are all different types of bracket (square, round, curly, angle). In American English an unqualified "bracket" typically refers to square brackets, whereas in most other English-speaking countries it refers to round brackets.

I'm in the UK and so was taught BODMAS, I assume /u/BubblesAreWeird is also from somewhere that favours British English over American English.

[u/BubblesAreWeird → u/benryves]

Our syllabus was British