VERY TRICKY ARITHMETIC!
NOTE:
THIS MUST BE DONE IN YOUR HEAD .
DO NOT USE PAPER AND PENCIL OR A CALCULATOR.
GO ON TRY IT.
TAKE 1000 AND ADD 40 TO IT.
NOW ADD ANOTHER 1000.
NOW ADD 30.
ADD ANOTHER 1000.
NOW ADD 20 .
NOW ADD ANOTHER 1000.
NOW ADD 10.
WHAT IS THE TOTAL?
SCROLL DOWN FOR THE CORRECT ANSWER.
DID YOU GET 5000?
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS ACTUALLY
4100
IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE IT, CHECK IT WITH A CALCULATOR!
dribblingpensioner 
But I ran out of fingers! 🙂
Like me you must have answered 5,000 🙂
Haaa… for once I got one of your puzzles right!!!!
Your getting better Steve 🙂
wow at first we got 5000 but when we said it out loud it made sense!
It is hard to do .
yes especially when i’m not mathematically minded! Hubby is though
I must be thick 🙂
No Christine, just normal 🙂
I use my brain for higher level functions like cursing you in the nicest words possible, Harry! You should hear the high-brow rant going on in there now. It’s brilliant. 4,100 indeed!
At least your brain is doing something useful 🙂
🙂
I flunked it, but got it when I read back through! lol
People usually get it after two ot three goes.
I tried adding the thousands separately then the tens and got 4100!! How hell does that happen?! Lol
You cheated 🙂
huh? I am confused – nothing new.. how can it DO that?
It confuses the mind Lizzie, your not blonde are you 🙂
no Harry we have been through this before … but I might as well be sometimes huh? I am a special creature.. lol
HArry! I figured it out – I mean how the brain tricks you – not why but how – and I know this was ages ago – it was a day or two later but i am going through my notifications now and it remided me…. 🙂
I must remember that, Lizzie is special 🙂
@___@ Got 5000, and no matter how I tried it so many ways I wasn’t getting 4100… and I’m taking Physical Chemistry in school now and getting A. What the heck! lol
its a mind puzzle Ren, give it to your class mates and teacher to try out 🙂
It’s amazing how I fall for these things every time, despite having seen many similar ones before. Thanks DP, for reminding me again of how important it is to laugh at myself! 😀
No problem Izaak, i’ll keep them coming 🙂
It is true, apparently it is easy to miscalculate! 🙂 Good one.
It seems that way, thanks Ina.
got it right only the third time..a good one:)
Thanks nightlake, at least you got it.
I got 4100. 🙂
After how many tries 🙂
The third. But I didn’t use a calculator. 🙂
Its very hard to get the first time, you should pass it on to your friends 🙂