This Apparently Easy

Math

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ANSWER:

If you came up with 5,000 then congratulations: you’re not alone. But you’re also not correct.

The actual right answer is 4,100.

See, it’s remarkably straightforward to add up the first bunch of numbers in your head. 1,000 plus 40 is 1,040, plus 1,000 is 2,040, plus 30 is 3,070, plus

1,000 is 3,070, plus 20 is 3,090, plus 1,000 is 4,090.

But it’s at this penultimate sum that things get tricky.

Most people, when adding 10 to that figure, come up with 5,000. But that’s your brain skipping ahead (and overlooking a zero). The correct sum is, of course,