” The 15 sums include multiplication, subtraction, percentages and division”
If the problems to be solved are to include multiplication, subtraction, percentages and division, won’t there be products, differences, fractions and quotients as well as “sums”?
Did them in my head, but not quickly. The trick is to look for look for shortcuts given the choice of answers and good estimating.
Bu seriously. 18 x 18 = 325, 326, 323, or 324?? Obviously, the last digit has to be a four!
Aced it... I just double checked my work with the answers below...
Lol.. I clicked on this just to pick on the Brit’s use of ‘MathS’
;^D
Is using paper and pencil cheating?
“Can YOU pass this maths quiz without cheating? “
Agree...sounds like they need to spend more time learning the English language before worrying about “maths”.
LOL...read you comment. I’ve seen it too, I just like to have fun with them - kind of like calling Puerto Ricans Illegal Aliens.
I remember my joy the first time I solved for 6 unknowns.
OK - I did them all correctly in my head only using pen & paper to record the answer. Where do I go to claim my 3%-er prize? Is it a pony?? My 4th grade teacher would be so proud of me...
As others have noted, some of the questions didn’t even require arriving at the full answer since the last digit gave away the only possible answer among those offered. In a few years, this won’t even be possible for those polluted with the garbage math known as “Common Core”.
100% in about three minutes, no pencil. Not that difficult.
I got most of them right doing them in my head, which is amazing to me since growing up, I had to go to summer school for many years for math, and never got better than a C, and that only once.
My parents tried getting me a tutor and everything (Some poor Electrician’s Mate looking for some extra money!) but nothing worked.
When I graduated high school, I couldn’t add or subtract fractions. I had a major mental block with it.
It stayed that way until I took a college level math course in the USN and got personal tutoring from a civilian on the ship I was working with on a project.
At the time, I read a book that taught me how to do figures in my head.
For example, if the problem is 43 x 25, I do 10 x 25 = 250, multiply that by 4, and then add 3 x 25.
That I can do that type of thing in my head is a source of never-ending pride, considering how badly I suffered at math as a kid...:)
It helps if you can do Common Core.
Got ‘em all, used a pencil on 2 questions.
Felt bad about it so am having my first cup of coffee now that the Wife is up.
13/15 and that one I missed was a brain fart, and I’m embarrassed that I missed the other one.
Got them all, without paper & pencil.
I hated math with a passion.
I chose Biology to avoid arithmetic.
15/15, with pen and paper assist on about 4 of the questions. Kept the calculators off, as directed.
Us old folks remember when a slide rule was an advanced “calculator,” though.
Aced it. But not from the Daily Mail, where the damned little facebook bar sat on top of the possible answers, prohibiting clicking on them. Clicked on through to the Buzzfeed original site, which was infinitely better. Then got 100%. Without a calculator or pen/paper a couple were head-achy though.