Have you ever seen something look so easy that you feel you can handle it at the snap of your fingers? That is probably what you feel when you see this math problem the first time.
Even if you weren’t exactly mathematically inclined, it is likely that you remember that a simple application of the PEMDAS/BODMAS rule should give you the answer.
Well, there is a different way to solve this seemingly simple problem. And in case you have used your PEMDAS/BODMAS rule to figure that the answer is 9, I am sorry. The answer is not 9.
