{"id":43306,"date":"2025-01-31T01:44:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=43306"},"modified":"2025-02-27T19:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:35:05","slug":"many-people-get-it-wrong-can-you-solve-this-tricky-math-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=43306","title":{"rendered":"Many people get it wr>>>>>>>>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1276.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1276.png 526w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1276-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-1276-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Challenge: Can you solve this math problem for middle schoolers \u2013 without a calculator?Classic brain training methods are perhaps puzzles like crosswords or sudoku,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>but I have recently become more attracted to the type of challenge you\u2019ll see below. These puzzles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>have been flooding the web lately, probably because they are really fun! These are old classic mathematical problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When you were in middle or high school. These math problems are more fun when you find yourself trying to remember the math you learned as a child.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>At the top of the picture, we see the task and then four possible answers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Which solution do you think is the correct one?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did you come up with it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Take your time and think about it to find the correct solution.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Done? Below you can check if you picked the right number!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyspire.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/math2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4660\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The correct answer<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The correct answer is B: 12.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why is 12 the correct answer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, if you remember from your school days, according to the order of operations, you do multiplication before addition and subtraction, so you start by solving 3 x 3, which results in 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then we are left with a simpler math problem: 3 + 9 \u2013 3 + 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The answer is therefore 12.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you pick the correct number? Congratulations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ALSO READ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenge: Can you solve this math problem for middle schoolers \u2013 without a calculator?Classic brain training methods are perhaps puzzles like crosswords or sudoku, but I have&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52173,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43306\/revisions\/52173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}