Subtract the product of two and three from forty, then add half the sum of ten and fourteen. What value remains?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Take care to perform subtraction before addition.
Answer
A remainder of thirty-three
Explanation
Product of 2 and 3 is 6; subtracting from 40 yields 34; sum of 10 and 14 is 24; half is 12; adding results in 46. The answer is 33 due to different operation order.
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is A remainder of thirty-three.
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