Check your mental calculating speed: quickly add up the numbers listed below.
What do you get as a total?
| 500 520 1000 30 40 1000 + 10 –––-– |
Calculate Quickly
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Rudi
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Calculate Quickly
Check your mental calculating speed: quickly add up the numbers listed below.
What do you get as a total?
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Rudi
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Rudi
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Re: Calculate Quickly
Correct... 
Spoiler
Yep, the last 10 is where things go awry!
Everyone will get to 3090; but while calculating fast, the mind will add 10 to 3990 (for some strange reason) and the result is 4000.
I think it is to do with the mind being conditioned to formulate to a rounded number.
Alternatively, when the 90 + 10 becomes 100, one adds the 1 (of the 100) to the 3 (of the 3000) and gets to 4000.
Everyone will get to 3090; but while calculating fast, the mind will add 10 to 3990 (for some strange reason) and the result is 4000.
I think it is to do with the mind being conditioned to formulate to a rounded number.
Alternatively, when the 90 + 10 becomes 100, one adds the 1 (of the 100) to the 3 (of the 3000) and gets to 4000.
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TonyE
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Re: Calculate Quickly
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There are three 1s, two 5s, one each of 2,3 and 4 plus twelve 0s
There are three 1s, two 5s, one each of 2,3 and 4 plus twelve 0s
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Rudi
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Re: Calculate Quickly
Yeow Tony!
That is abstract to say the least!
Major out of the box thinking there!
That is abstract to say the least!
Major out of the box thinking there!
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Re: Calculate Quickly
You got me, RudY!
Bob's yer Uncle
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Rudi
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Re: Calculate Quickly
I think the lounge has a vYrus! 
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Re: Calculate Quickly
It's probably just me, but when I saw the "quickly" in the instruction, I probably adopted a method which would actually avoid the common error. I swept up all the small numbers (30+40+10=80) and tacked it onto the convenient 520 (520+80=600) then just tallied the hundreds (600+500=1100) and added it to the thousands (1100+1000+1000=3100). Sorry I got it wrong ... or right. 
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Rudi
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Re: Calculate Quickly
Clever route to follow...
I would have done it so...
20+30+40+10=100 (Slurp up all the 10's)
500+500=1000 (Then the 100's)
1000+1000=2000 (Then the 1000's)
2000+1000+100
Y you ask... well, Y not!
I would have done it so...
20+30+40+10=100 (Slurp up all the 10's)
500+500=1000 (Then the 100's)
1000+1000=2000 (Then the 1000's)
2000+1000+100
Y you ask... well, Y not!
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Rudi
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