Math problem that '94% of Americans can't solve' but is too easy for Vietnamese students

SAT is a popular test for students in the entrance exams for universities and colleges in the US. Nowadays, many Vietnamese students have used the results of this test to study abroad or apply to domestic schools.

Before taking the exam, Vietnamese students often have the habit of looking for previous exam questions to try. There is a math question in the SAT that used to be difficult for many Americans, but Vietnamese students passed it around to conquer.

The problem has the following question: Given t = 333, what is the result of the calculation below?

Surprisingly, this is not a problem that can be difficult for Vietnamese students. Some students can even do the operation and find the answer very quickly.

Le Trung Kien (a former student majoring in Math) said that this is a common math problem for high school students in Vietnam, and a normal student can also do well and find the answer.

"Just substitute t = 333 into the expression and do a simple calculation, we will have the answer right away. Perhaps American students were fooled, did not think the SAT math test would be that easy and made it difficult for themselves," Kien said.

Another young person pointed out the second way to conquer this calculation is to use the properties of multiplication, then get the result of the expression t/3, replace t = 333 to find the answer.

Before being hunted on social networks, this problem originated from a clip of an American account with the title "94% of Americans cannot do this question", making many people curious about the difficulty of the SAT exam.

Some people think that the clip owner wrote a shocking title to attract the attention of the online community, but in reality this is an easy question, the statistic that 94% of Americans cannot do it is unbelievable.

Another math problem also went viral online after being posted by an American tiktoker on his personal page with the title: "The most difficult question on the SAT exam".

This has motivated many Vietnamese students to start solving math problems, however, to find the answer, Vietnamese students do not need to spend too much time.

Tran Thu Hoai (11th grade student in Hanoi ) said that math problems like this are not strange to high school students, even for university entrance exams, students have practiced this type of problem many times.

"This is not a difficult question, it only takes me 1 minute to complete" , Hoai said.

So what do you think? Can you solve this problem?

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