[buffyt]

16

I looked it up
https://www.bing.com/search?q=solution+to+8%c3%b72(2%2b2)&form=EDGTCT&qs=CM&cvid=c09ff2c6f43e443ba3616631c244bb9b&refig=586343cd2064496b9b9e2b52f761edf3&cc=US&setlang=en-US&elv=AXK1c4IvZoNqPoPnS%21QRLOMYfF1p5Gzdr9GqK83rKl3jy7tU7q3tz0fe3deJeBHaxsyG8TbuGXpb2eCJ2htiqIx8bgSQ%2185qPaJzZNdDIH12&plvar=0&PC=LCTS

I will ask hubby when he wakes up, he is a math genius.

[ssaftler]

I looked it up

Well, if an Internet search says 16, the science is settled. After all, the Internet only publishes the truth.

I think the answer is "Trump is a racist". Seems to be the answer for everything nowadays.

[HeadOn]

My senior year of high school was when electronic calculators became common. They only had four functions, and did not have parentheses.

You punched in the parenthetical calculation first, and worked out. If you do it that way, you get 1. If you use the one you posted, you get 16.