Conversation

The equation is 8/2(2+2) and people on Tumblr are arguing about if the answer is 1 or 16... and my first response was 1 but actually I think it's 16 and the person who wrote it to deliberately confuse people (and it looks like they got it wrong so more fool them)

So brackets first...

8/2(2+2) = 8/2(4) = 8/2*4

Division and multiplication are same priority so work from left to right

8/2*4 = 4*4 = 16

(1/2)