{"id":14829,"date":"2026-09-30T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=14829"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:16:45","slug":"can-you-solve-emilys-age-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=14829","title":{"rendered":"Can You Solve Emily\u2019s Age Puzzle?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How old is Emily? The question sounds easy, but the answer depends on whether you remember the standard rules for solving mathematical expressions. Emily gives her age as <strong>80 \u2212 40 \u00f7 10 \u00d7 4<\/strong>, turning a simple question into a quick test of mathematical reasoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To solve the expression correctly, we follow the standard order of operations, often remembered as <strong>PEMDAS<\/strong> or <strong>BODMAS<\/strong>. Division and multiplication are performed before subtraction, and when division and multiplication appear together, they are evaluated from left to right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Start with <strong>40 \u00f7 10<\/strong>, which equals <strong>4<\/strong>. The expression then becomes <strong>80 \u2212 4 \u00d7 4<\/strong>. Next, multiplication takes priority over subtraction, so <strong>4 \u00d7 4 = 16<\/strong>. That leaves <strong>80 \u2212 16<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, subtract 16 from 80, giving <strong>64<\/strong>. According to the mathematical expression Emily provided, her age is therefore <strong>64 years old<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The puzzle can be confusing because some people may calculate the numbers strictly from left to right, starting with 80 \u2212 40. However, that approach does not follow the standard order of operations. Once the rules are applied correctly, the answer is clear: <strong>Emily is 64.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"684f6003e199ca137b09540a661b4c2d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M940464ScriptRootC1583286\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/k\/o\/kohajone.press.1583286.js\" async>\r\n<\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How old is Emily? The question sounds easy, but the answer depends on whether you remember the standard rules for solving mathematical expressions. Emily gives her age&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14831,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829\/revisions\/14831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}