Tag: PEMDAS

How many squares do you see?

If you enjoyed the Facebook math problem about PEMDAS, I’m sure you will love this second math problem about counting squares which I also got from Facebook. Problem How many squares do you see? Answers given in Facebook include 24, 25, 26, 27, 38, 34, 36, 40, 42. Solution Here’s how you can systematically count the

PEMDAS Order of operation

The following photo is going viral in Facebook with 848, 039 likes as of this writing. I checked out the latest 200 comments/answers and I got the following: 20, 320, 306, 128, 116, 34, 128, 160, including “depends on the value of x“. But there should only be one answer otherwise, what’s the use of