You Have To Be Smarter Than An 8th Grader To Get This Simple Problem Right

More than likely, you have not come up with the correct answer. The reason is, most people have forgotten about the order of operations.

Then again, if you came up with the answer 6, you are absolutely correct!

According to the order of operations, you would do everything inside of the parentheses first. In other words, one plus one equals two.

The next thing you do is multiplication, so 12×2 = 24.

Finally, you would take care of the subtraction, so 30-24 = 6.

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