Viral maths puzzle leaves people stumped - but young boy solves it in seconds
dailyrecord.co.ukA viral video of a mind-blasting maths puzzle has left thousands of people stumped as they attempted to solve the mystery. It involves a sum that is mathematically incorrect and all you have to do is make it correct - but there’s a catch.
You’re only allowed to add one line. A clip, shared online, shows the puzzle starting off as an incorrect sum that claims 5 + 5 + 5 = 550.
Your task is to make the sum correct by adding just one line - and it's not as easy as it might seem at first glance, the Mirror reports.
The clip, which was shared on TikTok by @xivecct75, shows a man explaining the task to his wife, who then attempts to solve the puzzle in all the ways that make sense to her, including using her one line to make the number 1, changing one of the 5's to a 15 or to a 51 - although neither bring her to the correct solution.
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