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04th Oct 2016

This seemingly easy maths equation is seriously messing with people’s heads

Can you solve it?

JOE

Ready to have your brain wrinkled?

Nearly every week, we’re surprised with an illusion or riddle that stresses us out to the absolute MAX.

We had this optical illusion a week or so ago, where many people struggled to see all 12 dots because of the receptors in their eyes…

Another eye-opener is this image, that looks like Zoolander – until you squint and see a woman’s face…

illusion

The latest thing leaving people exasperated is an equation of the mathematical kind, where you must solve a sum by only changing one stick.

In the picture ‘6+4=4’ is spelled out with coloured matchsticks, where the challenge is to fix the equation by moving one stick and one stick only.

Unfortunately, maths was never our forte so we’re still working on it. Can you find the answer?

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