{"id":28062,"date":"2026-06-04T10:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=28062"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:45:55","slug":"90-fail-to-solve-this-simple-math-puzzle-can-you-get-it-right-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=28062","title":{"rendered":"90% Fail to Solve This Simple Math Puzzle \u2014 Can You Get It Right!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The math problem is:<\/p>\n<p>3 + 3 \u00d7 3 \u2212 3 + 3 = ?<\/p>\n<p>Many people get it wrong by solving too quickly. Using the correct order of operations, do the multiplication first:<\/p>\n<p>3 \u00d7 3 = 9<\/p>\n<p>Then solve:<\/p>\n<p>3 + 9 \u2212 3 + 3 = 12<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 The correct answer is <strong>12<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Many people answer <strong>18<\/strong>, but multiplication must be done before addition and subtraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The math problem is: 3 + 3 \u00d7 3 \u2212 3 + 3 = ? Many people get it wrong by solving too quickly. Using the correct order of operations, do the multiplication first: 3 \u00d7 3 = 9 Then solve: 3 + 9 \u2212 3 + 3 = 12 \u2705 The correct answer is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=28062\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;90% Fail to Solve This Simple Math Puzzle \u2014 Can You Get It Right!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28064,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28062\/revisions\/28064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}