{"id":49157,"date":"2026-06-06T21:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=49157"},"modified":"2026-06-06T21:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:42:23","slug":"please-do-not-use-a-calculator-math-puzzle-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=49157","title":{"rendered":"Please Do Not Use a Calculator: Math Puzzle Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you get it right?<\/p>\n<p>This blackboard puzzle asks you to solve 9 + 12 \/ 3 x 2 without using a calculator. The trick is using the correct order of operations.The Answer<\/p>\n<p>The correct answer is: The answer is 17..<\/p>\n<p>Here is why<br \/>\nDo division and multiplication before addition.<br \/>\nWork left to right for division and multiplication: 12 \/ 3 = 4, then 4 x 2 = 8.<br \/>\nNow add 9 + 8 = 17.<br \/>\nWhy people miss it<br \/>\nMany people add 9 and 12 first, but the division and multiplication must come before that addition.<\/p>\n<p>What answer did you get before checking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you get it right? This blackboard puzzle asks you to solve 9 + 12 \/ 3 x 2 without using a calculator. The trick is using&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49159,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49157\/revisions\/49159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}