[swiftcoder]

> it took me a couple of minutes

Are you in the 8th grade? Those of us a couple of decades past the 8th grade are maybe slower at algebra than someone who is actively drilling it...

[n6242]

I must be getting old as well because I had to write it down in a piece of paper to do it, but I did get it pretty quick.

[Jtarii]

This is more a test of reading comprehension than algebra. Figuring out what the questions is even trying to ask is like 90% of the question.

[swiftcoder]

When I was that age, we practiced a lot of word problems. The folks who wrote the tests really favoured this kind of slightly underhanded logic

[Jtarii]

They aren't allowed to make the mathematics too difficult so they make up for it by making the questions hard to understand.