96% of Students FAILED This Beautiful Challenge Will You Get It Right?

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]Can you solve this without a calculator?

[00:00:02]Okay, most people we are giving this and the instructions said solve without a calculator and most of them got it wrong because what they did was to add this together. Okay, 6 + 18 gave them 24 / 3 in parentheses 2 - 2. Okay, now in their next step they divided 24 by 3 and they got 8 in parentheses 2 - 2. Okay? Now from here they wrote 8 * 2 - 2 = 0 and 8 * 0 = 0 as well. Okay, that means they got it wrong because the right answer is not 0. Okay, because we are supposed to solve this with the order of operation which is PEMDAS. Okay, P E M D A S.

[00:00:52]Okay, where P is the parentheses, E is the exponent, M is multiplication, D is division, A is addition and S is subtraction. Okay, now these two are of the same priority and these two are of the same priority. Now if you are given a question and you see multiplication and division, what you are going to do is to solve it from the left to the right. Okay, and if you are given a question and you have addition and subtraction, you solve from the left to the right as well. Okay?

[00:01:25]Now looking at our question, we have we have to attend to the parentheses first.

[00:01:29]Okay, that is the first thing we are going to do. So we have 6 + 18 / 3 * 2 - 2 = 0. Okay, now what most people made a mistake here because they first of all attended to multiplication because they thought that multiplication is of higher priority to division. They did not know that both of them we are the same. Okay, they are of the same priority. So we have to solve from the left to the right. So for that reason we are going to have 6 + 18 / 3 will give us 6 then * 0. Okay, now we are going to multiply first because um multiplication is of higher priority to addition. Okay, so we have to multiply first. Okay, so we have 6 + 6 * 0 = 0.

[00:02:20]Okay, so 6 + 0 = 6. So the right answer here is 6. Okay, now let's attend to this question as well before you go. So we have 12 / 3 in parentheses 1 + 3.

[00:02:34]Okay, now most people solved this in a wrong way because what they did first was to write um 12 / 3. Okay, times in parentheses 1 + 3 and that is 4. Now here they got it right but what they did not know is that multiplication they thought that multiplication is of higher priority to division. Okay, so they multiplied this one first. So they had 12 / 3 * 4 gave them 12 and 12 / 12 = 1 and this is wrong. Okay, because according to the order of operation PEMDAS P E M A M D. This is D A S. Okay, where P is parentheses, A E is exponent, M is multiplication, D is division, A is addition and S is subtraction. And remember that these two are of the same priority and these two are of the same priority. That is to say we are going to solve it from the left to the right when we find both of them in a particular question. That is both multiplication and and division or both addition and subtraction. Okay? So from our question which is 12 / 3 in parentheses 1 + 3.

[00:03:52]Okay, we are going to first of all attend to the parentheses. So we have 12 / 3 * 1 + 3 = 4. Okay, so from here we are going to divide first. This place they multiplied first but that is wrong.

[00:04:06]So we have to divide first. Okay, 12 / 3 = 4 * 4. Okay, and 4 * 4 = 16 and that is the right answer. Now let's solve this as well. Okay, if we are to solve this without a calculator we are going to first of all attend to the the exponent. Okay, this exponent here is um 2 * 2 * 2. Okay, and 2 * 2 is 4. 4 * 2 is um um 8. Okay, so we have 8 / 4 in parentheses 1 + 1. Okay, now from here we have 8 / 4 * 1 + 1 is 2. Okay, now when we got here some people made mistake here. They thought that multiplication is of higher priority to division. Okay, now because according to PEMDAS P E M D A S. Okay, here is parentheses, here is exponent, M is multiplication and D is division. And these two are of the same priority. Looking at our question we have division and multiplication.

[00:05:16]Okay, so we have to solve it from the left to the right since they are of the same priority. This is addition and this is subtraction and the same thing is applicable to this. So if we are to multiply solve this, we are going to divide this by this first. Okay, now 8 / 4 = 2. Okay, so we have 2 * 2 and the right answer is equal to 4. Okay, if you multiply this first you are going to get the answer to be 1 and this is wrong.

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