>>11942430PEMDAS is a lie that they teach to retarded high school kids. Sometimes is also PEDMAS and other variations, and it makes retards think that multiplication always goes before division, but in reality both operations are the same thing; division is just a multiplication with a fraction involved. The real order of precedence is that you do exponents and roots (both are the same thing) from left to right, then you do multiplication and division (both are the same thing) from left to right, and then you add and subtract (both are the same thing) from left to right. If you find parentheses at some point you need to simplify the stuff inside the parenthesis before it starts interacting with the outside, but if you know certain rules you can do stuff without simplifying it (this is too much for you, so just forget it for now). The answer is 16.