{"id":5580,"date":"2025-03-06T09:36:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T09:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quickstorylab.com\/2025\/03\/can-you-solve-this-tricky-viral-math-problem-550\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T09:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T09:36:59","slug":"can-you-solve-this-tricky-viral-math-problem-550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quickstorylab.com\/2025\/03\/can-you-solve-this-tricky-viral-math-problem-550\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Solve This Tricky Viral Math Problem?-550"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here is a quick, fun, and self-indulgent story: I recently started studying for the GRE, and, upon skimming through the workbook, realized that I hadn’t taken a math class in almost nine years. Any confidence I had in my quantitative reasoning abilities quickly dissipated. I’ve since begun taking intro level high school math classes online because I literally have to start from scratch, so when I came upon\u00a0this viral math problem\u00a0that’s stumping the Internet, I thought, “Aha! A chance to test my 9th grade math abilities!”\n File that one under “Famous last words.”\n