header.entry-header in loop.php not outputting h1 or h2

[cwcage]

Within the loop.php file it seems that the h1 or h2 tags are not getting printed out in the HTML.

There are two places in the file where I see this:

      <?php $post_title_tag = is_single() ? "h1" : "h2"; ?>
      <<? print $post_title_tag ?> class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></<? print $post_title_tag ?>>

What ends up rendering is this:

    &lt;<!--? print $post_title_tag ?--> class="entry-title"&gt;TrueCar releases average transaction prices<!--<? print $post_title_tag ?-->&gt;

I'm not a programmer by any means, but I figured out if I added 'php' before each 'print', it would work.

    <<?php print $post_title_tag ?> class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></<?php print $post_title_tag ?>>

Is there a different way to get this to work?