{"id":609,"date":"2026-04-25T00:31:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2026-04-25T00:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:31:58","slug":"what-is-the-roman-numeral-for-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Roman Numeral for 75?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Roman numerals can look simple at first, but one small letter can completely change the answer. In this puzzle, the question asks for the Roman numeral for <strong>75<\/strong>, and there are four options shown in the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s look at each one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A. LXXV<\/strong><br>This means <strong>50 + 10 + 10 + 5<\/strong>.<br>That equals <strong>75<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>B. LXXXIX<\/strong><br>This means <strong>50 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 9<\/strong>.<br>That equals <strong>89<\/strong>, not 75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C. XCIX<\/strong><br>This means <strong>90 + 9<\/strong>.<br>That equals <strong>99<\/strong>, not 75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>D. LXXIX<\/strong><br>This means <strong>50 + 10 + 10 + 9<\/strong>.<br>That equals <strong>79<\/strong>, not 75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the correct answer is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A. LXXV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because <strong>L = 50<\/strong>, <strong>XX = 20<\/strong>, and <strong>V = 5<\/strong>.<br>Together, <strong>50 + 20 + 5 = 75<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Roman numerals can look simple at first, but one small letter can completely change the answer. In this puzzle, the question asks for the Roman <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/?p=609\" title=\"What Is the Roman Numeral for 75?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","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\/609","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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}