re: This math problem is clearly only for geniuses...

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Maybe if the problem wasn't horribly written in an intentionally ambiguous way, then there wouldn't be any confusion.

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Or perhaps they are just trying to teach the order of operations.

PEMDAS must have stopped being taught at some point.

NiNE

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Answer is 9, retards

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That's what I thought but everyone elses answer was 3 so I didn't say anything.

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Maybe if the problem wasn't horribly written in an intentionally ambiguous way, then there wouldn't be any confusion.

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There is nothing ambiguous about the way this problem is written. You can make that case for the 288/2 problem, but not this one.

Answer is 9. Learn please excuse my dear aunt sally.

Yeah, I can argue ambiguous equations when it comes to doing division or multiplication first (I've never followed the left to right rule), but this one is pretty simple. Then I read posts from people who are so confident that I second guess myself. I got 9.

3+3-3x0+3
3+3-(3x0)+3 or 3+3+(-3x0)+3
3+3-0+3 or 3+3+0+3
3+3+3=9

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Since when did 5th grade math become something people look up to?

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When you went into 6th grade and got to use the calculator. People have been taught to read from right to left a lot more than the order of operations

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Please excuse my dear aunt Sally?

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Correct to a point, but remember that multiplication and division are considered equal with each other as are addition and subtraction. So in those cases, after parentheses and exponents, go from left to right.