It's an easy-looking grade school equation but can you remember the golden rule to get the answer in 30 seconds?
The math problem was shared online by the X account, BreaktheSilos, which regularly posts viral puzzles for people to decode. Social media users worked to crack the code and sounded off in the comments on the correct answer. Even though division is repeated twice in the equation, 18 ÷ 3 comes before 3 ÷ 3, meaning 18 ÷ 3 would be solved first. Those who thought 1 was the correct answer made the mistake of forgetting to follow PEMDAS. If you correctly followed the rules of PEMDAS, you should have found the answer was 5Did you get the correct answer in under 30 seconds?
Source: Daily Mail March 01, 2026 21:39 UTC
