{"id":5595,"date":"2024-12-30T04:04:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T04:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2024-12-30T04:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T04:04:52","slug":"this-apparently-easy-math-problem-continues-to-confuse-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/archives\/5595","title":{"rendered":"This Apparently Easy Math Problem Continues to Confuse People"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class='\"entry-header\"'>\n<div class='\"entry-content\"'>\n<p>An additional problem that seems easy enough at first glance is being widely shared, as people\u2019s mental arithmetic skills keep getting tripped up by the same part of it. All you have to do is add up the following numbers. Try it for yourself:\n</p><p>You have 1000,\n</p><p>add 40,\n</p><p>add 1000,\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-4>\n<p>add 30,\n</p><p>again add 1000,\n</p><p>add 20,\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-5>\n<p>again 1000,\n</p><p>add 10\n</p><p><strong>What is the result?\n<p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' wp-image-72939 size-full td-animation-stack-type2-2 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/teachmelife.net%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/07%5C/KH.jpg%5C%22" sizes='\"auto,' srcset='\"https:\/\/teachmelife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/KH.jpg' https: alt='\"\"' width='\"564\"' height='\"418\"' data-pin-no-hover='\"true\"'>\n</p><p>Got it? Share your answer below and then check the answer! Keep scrolling for answers or solutions.\n</p><p>A\n</p><p>B\n</p><p>C\n</p><p>ANSWER:<br>\nIf you came up with 5,000 then congratulations: you\u2019re not alone. But you\u2019re also not correct.\n</p><p>The actual right answer is 4,100.\n</p><p>See, it\u2019s remarkably straightforward to add up the first bunch of numbers in your head. 1,000 plus 40 is 1,040, plus 1,000 is 2,040, plus 30 is 3,070, plus 1,000 is 3,070, plus 20 is 3,090, plus 1,000 is 4,090. But it\u2019s at this penultimate sum that things get tricky. Most people, when adding 10 to that figure, come up with 5,000. But that\u2019s your brain skipping ahead (and overlooking a zero). The correct sum is, of course, 4,100.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>An additional problem that seems easy enough at first glance is being widely shared, as people\u2019s mental arithmetic skills keep getting tripped up by the same part of it. All &hellip; \n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5598,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/5598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scenicwhispers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></strong></p></div></div></div></header>