When was the last time you did any serious math problems? Perhaps you helped your children with some of the problems they had in school and to be honest, the math today is nowhere near like what it was when we were in school. Some of us dreaded taking math class and we didn’t necessarily appreciate the fact that it was a part of the curriculum. As we get older, however, we tend to come to appreciate these types of challenges.
There is something about a puzzle that just intrigues people and it seems as if they are not able to put it down until they can answer it correctly. This math challenge is more than a puzzle, it is a real-life example of how a challenge can make us think. The problem is, you might think that you have the answer right but 99% of the time, you will come up with the same, exact wrong answer as everybody else. It can be very frustrating but as you begin to understand why the math is done this way, it will trigger the memories of math class from your high school years.
Here is the answer that you are looking for.
Or, is this the answer?
The fact of the matter is, you can get both 10 and 58, depending upon how you look at the question. What you really need to do is to watch this video and it will show you which of those solutions is correct: