{"id":13591,"date":"2026-04-06T19:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13591"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:28:16","slug":"can-you-solve-this-tricky-viral-math-problem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13591","title":{"rendered":"Can You Solve This Tricky Viral Math Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"57\" data-end=\"117\">This equation is a classic <strong data-start=\"84\" data-end=\"107\">Order of Operations<\/strong> puzzle:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"119\" data-end=\"159\"><strong data-start=\"119\" data-end=\"132\">Equation:<\/strong>\u202f50 + 50 \u2013 25 \u00d7 0 + 2 + 2<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"232\"><strong data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"195\">Step 1 \u2013 Multiplication first:<\/strong><br data-start=\"195\" data-end=\"198\" \/>25 \u00d7 0 = 0 \u2192 50 + 50 \u2013 0 + 2 + 2<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"234\" data-end=\"348\"><strong data-start=\"234\" data-end=\"282\">Step 2 \u2013 Addition\/Subtraction left to right:<\/strong><br data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"285\" \/>50 + 50 = 100<br data-start=\"298\" data-end=\"301\" \/>100 \u2013 0 = 100<br data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"317\" \/>100 + 2 = 102<br data-start=\"330\" data-end=\"333\" \/>102 + 2 = 104<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"350\" data-end=\"369\"><strong data-start=\"350\" data-end=\"361\">Answer:<\/strong> 104 \u2705<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"371\" data-end=\"475\"><strong data-start=\"371\" data-end=\"390\">Common mistake:<\/strong> Ignoring the order of operations gives (100 \u2013 25) \u00d7 0 + 2 + 2 = 4, which is wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This equation is a classic Order of Operations puzzle: Equation:\u202f50 + 50 \u2013 25 \u00d7 0 + 2 + 2 Step 1 \u2013 Multiplication first:25 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13591\" title=\"Can You Solve This Tricky Viral Math Problem?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13593,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13591\/revisions\/13593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}