Can You Solve It Without a Calculator? 🤯

At first glance, this looks like the easiest math problem you’ve seen all day.

Simple numbers. Clean structure. Nothing complicated.

But here’s the catch…

Most people rush.

And when you rush, you forget the one rule that changes everything: order of operations.

The equation is:

110 − 10 × 10 + 10

A lot of people immediately go left to right:

110 − 10 = 100

100 × 10 = 1000

1000 + 10 = 1010 ❌

But that’s exactly the mistake.

Multiplication always comes before addition and subtraction.

So let’s slow it down and do it correctly:

First:

10 × 10 = 100

Now rewrite the equation:

110 − 100 + 10

Then solve left to right:

110 − 100 = 10

10 + 10 = 20

Final Answer:

✅ 20

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