{"id":2677,"date":"2015-01-10T19:40:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2015-01-10T19:40:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T17:40:23","slug":"basic-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=2677","title":{"rendered":"Basic Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This riddle MUST be done in your head and NOT using pen and paper.<\/p>\n<p>Take 1000.<br \/>\nAnd add 40 to it.<br \/>\nNow add another 1000.<br \/>\nNow add another 30.<br \/>\nAnother 1000.<br \/>\nNow add 20.<br \/>\nNow add another 1000.<br \/>\nNow add 10.<br \/>\nWhat is the total?<\/p>\n<p>Now Scroll Down &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\\n<\/p>\n<p>Did you get 5000? Seems most people do.<br \/>\nThe answer actually is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\<br \/>\n\/\/<br \/>\n\\\n<\/p>\n<p>4100. Don&#8217;t believe it? Try it with your calculator.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you feel like an idiot? Well&#8230; This has been done by MANY.  The result always being the same&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This riddle MUST be done in your head and NOT using pen and paper. Take 1000. And add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add another 30. Another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total? Now Scroll Down &#8230;. \/\/ \\ \/\/ \\ \/\/ \\ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[973,974],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz","tag-math","tag-math-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}