BuzzFeed posted a "simple cookie math problem" that got over 1 million views and was one of their top posts of the week! Here is a link to the quiz: https://www.buzzfeed.com/natha....nwpyle/can-you-solve

The quiz involved counting cookies and performing mathematical operations on the numbers. The answer choices, however, did not even include the correct answer to the equation! This video presents the correct answer with reference to the order of operations.

Source
https://www.buzzfeed.com/natha....nwpyle/can-you-solve

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