Kenneth Chang

It is stupid and pointless. There's the only one answer and it is 1. You always have to count brackets at first. That's the law. Wanna check - take it as a fraction. 8/2(2+2) No matter what you do, you will get only 1.

Unless you divide 8/2 first

I mean fraction. In fraction 8 will go up and 2(2+2) will go down. If you will divide 8&2 by math laws in fraction, you will get 4 upside and 1(2+2) downside. Then whatever you do downside, you'll get 4. The fraction will be 4/4 and it is 1. Answer 16 is mistake.

That is only if the question was written as 8/(2(2+2)) It was not, so the only answer is 16.

If you write it as 8 ------- 2(2+2) you also get 1.