{"id":594,"date":"2026-04-24T20:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/?p=594"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:51:36","slug":"how-to-solve-this-brain-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"How to Solve This Brain Teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At first, this looks very simple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

50 + 10 \u00d7 0 + 7 + 2 = ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the trick is that you must follow the correct order of operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiplication comes before addition, so first we solve:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 \u00d7 0 = 0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the problem becomes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

50 + 0 + 7 + 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we add everything:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

50 + 0 = 50<\/strong>
50 + 7 = 57<\/strong>
57 + 2 = 59<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the correct answer is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

59<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At first, this looks very simple: 50 + 10 \u00d7 0 + 7 + 2 = ? But the trick is that you must follow […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}