>>11503984except that's not how a mathematician would write it, there are no parenthesis around (2(2+2)). Order of operations is PE|MD|AS, M and D are on the same level of importance. You divide 8/2 before multiplying it by what's in the parenthesis, the result of 2+2. The answer is 16. I have a BS in math and every time I see this thread I cringe.
A good way to test this is to ask how a computer would evaluate the expression 8 / 2 * (2 + 2). All modern programming languages will compute this as 16. Pic related is javascript. Link is C++ operator order which would give you the same result, look at precedence level 5.
