How can there be "argument" about this?
Because that’s wrong.
BEDMAS.
Brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition, and subtraction. The answer is 16. I was taught this professionally.
16
I will ask hubby when he wakes up, he is a math genius.
I simply saw the answer as “1” and was puzzled there is even a controversy, but...I had to work like hell in my life to deal with math (my crowning achievement was passing Physical Chemistry in college!) so maybe I am not someone who can comment on this...
“How can there be “argument” about this? “
When you don’t know the rules of math.