How is $\frac{4\times 3+5\times 6}{18\times -22} = 3$?

Question

I was preparing for civil services tests and recently came across this question in a book.

Its answer is option C as given in that book.

I have tried to solved it by following DMAS rule and also not following DMAS rule, but I could not get it equal to 3.

How is this possible?

Answer 1

$$\frac{4\times 3+5\times 6}{18\times 2 -22}=\frac{42}{14}=3$$ So the original expression is probably a typo for the above.

Answer 2

We have

$$\frac{4\cdot 3+5\cdot 6}{18\cdot -22}=-\frac{42}{396}=-\frac{7}{66}$$

maybe the original problem was

$$\frac{4\cdot 3+5\cdot 6}{18-(2^2)}=\frac{42}{14}=3$$