{"id":15772,"date":"2026-05-03T06:51:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15772"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:51:03","slug":"90-fail-to-solve-this-simple-math-puzzle-can-you-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15772","title":{"rendered":"90% Fail to Solve This Simple Math Puzzle \u2014 Can You Get It Right!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"30\" data-end=\"113\">Using the correct order of operations (multiplication before addition\/subtraction):<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"115\" data-end=\"186\">3 + 3 \u00d7 3 \u2212 3 + 3<br data-start=\"132\" data-end=\"135\" \/>= 3 + 9 \u2212 3 + 3<br data-start=\"150\" data-end=\"153\" \/>= 12 \u2212 3 + 3<br data-start=\"165\" data-end=\"168\" \/>= 9 + 3<br data-start=\"175\" data-end=\"178\" \/>= <strong data-start=\"180\" data-end=\"186\">12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"188\" data-end=\"299\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The common mistake (getting 18) comes from ignoring the multiplication-first rule and just going left to right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Using the correct order of operations (multiplication before addition\/subtraction): 3 + 3 \u00d7 3 \u2212 3 + 3= 3 + 9 \u2212 3 + 3= <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15772\" title=\"90% Fail to Solve This Simple Math Puzzle \u2014 Can You Get It Right!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772","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=15772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15773,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772\/revisions\/15773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}