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There is another example where the pemdas is even better covered than a simple parenthetical multiplication, but the answer there is the same: It's the arbitrary syntax, not the math rules.
You guys are both correct. It's 16 and the problem is a syntax that implies a wrong order of operations. The syntax isn't wrong, either, just implicative in your example and seemingly arbitrary in the other example I wish I remembered.
If it involves Maths, then it's Maths rules.
It's 1
Do you not understand that syntax is its own set of rules?
Yes, the rules of Maths, as I was already saying. I'm a Maths teacher. I take it you didn't read the link then.