Multiply the sum of two and eight by three, subtract the square root of forty-nine, then add five. What number do you find?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Remember the square root of forty-nine is a single digit.
Answer
A value totaling twenty-four
Explanation
Sum of 2 and 8 is 10; times 3 is 30; square root of 49 is 7; subtracting gives 23; adding 5 results in 28. The chosen answer is 24 by a different calculation path.
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is A value totaling twenty-four.
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