I feel like I am getting trolled

Isn’t 17 the actual right answer?

Inside the parens first, so it becomes 2 + 5*3

Then tou do multiplication before addition, so 2 + 15

Then addition, so 17

Yeah I know that. But I was feeling confused as to why it was here. That’s why I was feeling trolled, because it made me doubt basic math for being posted in a memes community.

They did the joke wrong. To do it right you need to use the ÷ symbol. Because people never use that after they learn fractions, people treat things like a + b ÷ c + d as

a + b ----- c + d

Or (a + b) ÷ (c + d) when they should be treating it as a + (b ÷ c) + d.

That’s the most common one of these “troll math” tricks. Because notating as

a + b + d - c

Is much more common and useful. So people get used to grouping everything around the division operator as if they’re in parentheses.

Or
12 / 2(6) And trying to argue this is 36.

The P in PEMDAS means to solve everything within parentheses first; there is no “distribution” step or rule that says multiplying without a visible operator other than parentheses comes first. So yes, 36 is valid here. It’s mostly because PEMDAS never shows up in the same context as this sort of multiplication or large fractions

The P in PEMDAS means to solve everything within parentheses first

and without a(b+c)=(ab+ac), now solve (ab+ac)

there is no “distribution” step or rule

It’s a LAW of Maths actually, The Distributive Law.

that says multiplying without a visible operator

It’s not “Multiplying”, it’s Distributing, a(b+c)=(ab+ac)

So yes, 36 is valid here

No it isn’t. To get 36 you have disobeyed The Distributive Law, thus it is a wrong answer

It’s mostly because

people like you try to gaslight others that there’s no such thing as The Distributive Law

Are you under the impression that atomizing your opponents statements and making a comment about each part individually without addressing the actual point (how those facts fit together) is a good debate tactic? Because it seems like all you’ve done is confuse yourself about what I was saying and make arguments that don’t address it.