Originally Posted by Si

You weren't taught wrong, maybe you just weren't taugh BODMAS aswell. That is why these questions exist, it's not because they can easily be done wrong. It's because they can be done 2 different ways.

If I wanted to know what 2 lots of 7+5 were. I could write it down like 7 + 5 X 2 = ?

And everyone here saying 41 is the right answer to this equation would get my equation wrong.

I wanted to know what 7 + 5 x 2 = ?. And the answer to my question is 24.

If you use BODMAS it would be 17.