{"id":10203,"date":"2017-11-23T12:43:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T11:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=10203"},"modified":"2017-11-30T12:51:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T11:51:39","slug":"can-you-solve-this-simple-math-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/?p=10203","title":{"rendered":"Can You Solve This &#8216;Simple&#8217; Math Puzzle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, it seems easy. I calculated the answer within seconds and thought I was right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is what I did:<\/p>\n<p>3 apples = 30, so 1 apple = 10.<br \/>\n10 + 2 bananas = 18, so 2 bananas = 8 and 1 banana = 4<br \/>\n4 \u2013 1 coconut = 2, so 1 coconut = 2<br \/>\nTherefore, 1 coconut + 1 apple + 1 banana = 2 + 10 + 4 = 16<\/p>\n<p>But that was sooo wrong! Look closely at the image again:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/puzzle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/puzzle.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/puzzle-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><br \/>\nNotice that the number of bananas and coconut halves are not the same in the last question as it is in others? I totally missed that at first!<\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve seen it, solve the puzzle and let me know what you get&#8230;&nbsp;&#x1f60a;&#x1f60a;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, it seems easy. I calculated the answer within seconds and thought I was right.&nbsp; This is what I did: 3 apples = 30, so 1 apple = 10. 10 + 2 bananas = 18, so 2 bananas = 8 and 1 banana = 4 4 \u2013 1 coconut = 2, so 1 coconut = 2 Therefore, 1 coconut + 1 apple + 1 banana = 2 + 10 + 4 = 16 But that was sooo wrong! Look closely at the image again: Notice that the number of bananas and coconut halves are not the same in the last question as it is in others? I totally missed that at first! Now that you&#8217;ve seen it, solve the puzzle and let me know what you get&#8230;&nbsp;&#x1f60a;&#x1f60a;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain-teaser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10205,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203\/revisions\/10205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephaniedaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}