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I mean, obviously ten.

But I at least understand 16.

I deeply worry about the percentage just next to the other three numbers.

A multiple choice question where all the answers are wrong, says nothing about math or the mathematical understanding of the general population.

This is engagementbait and its hooked you too.

Was this multiple choice? Because if 10 isn't an option, people are just going to answer whatever.

It’s not a bad analogy for american democracy. None of the options are correct, so you either pick the wrong answer that makes some amount of sense or write in the correct answer and be completely ignored in the tally of results.

This is why I write it as 2+(2x4). The parentheses aren't techniclly necessary, but they do make it clearer to people who haven't been in a school for 35 years.

The annoying prevalence of this meme suggests to me that an alarming number of people lack even a middle-school understanding of basic arithmetic.

This isn’t even math, just convention on rules for order of operations.

Let's just agree to disagree, then. /s

I love this so much because on the ballot, the right answer is also often missing

Okay, buddy elementary school

I know this is a PEMDAS joke, one of many for the PEMDAS throne.

But yeah, we need to really, really worry about the coming day when "math becomes a democracy" and that is already happening for a wide array of other facts and knowledge about the world.

Whatever "civility politics" liberals infested our collective minds with have to be abandoned. We have to get a lot harder and a lot less tolerant of other people's "beliefs" even if you think "Well they're only harming themselves by thinking 1x1=4" but they're not, we need to start viewing these people as threats to our future. We no longer live in isolation, whatever bullshit your parents drove into you about "nothing on the internet being real and shouldn't matter" was utter hogwash and even less relevant in 2025/2026. We get everything from the internet, including a sense of community and connection, which is why nutsoids find each other and turn something like a joke about earth being flat into an entire anti-science movement.

If you've ever seen those dumb sci-fi shows or movies where science if forbidden and people caught learning science are punished, and thought "that's so unrealistic" well I have some real bad news for you.

SADMEP

Solve for x

In america, math IS a democracy, and this is why we are losing our democracy.

Should really allow people to answer how they want.

Who's Big Math in charge of the multiple choice?

Who's denying a voice to those who want to answer that question with "10"? [Edit: or "F"? ~ or an essay on being "off by 1"]

8x + 2

So people just assumed an imaginary parentheses?

Fourg

@Mog_Spawn @humour 2 2x4's are not as strong as a 4x4. But you have to remember to take of 1/4" from every width.

I'm worried how many people answered the odd numbers for an equation where it is only possible to end up with an even numbered answer.

Wait, which numeral system are we using

Null.

2+2*4=16~4~ ☝️🤓

Some programming languages do away with operator precedence for a big parsing speed boost. J/APL and stack languages are "best known". in J, right to left parsing,

16 = 4 * 2 + 2