This is really strange.. try it!

GET A CALCULATOR.

1. Key into the calculator the first 3 digits of your phone number (the exchange, not the area code).

2. Multiply by 80

3. Add 1

4. Multiply by 250

5. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number

6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again

7. Subtract 250

8. Lastly, divide by 2

Is this your phone number?

dont know what im doin wrong but im not gettin it

Yep that was it!!!!

oh my yeppers...LOL I think I've done it before but thanks...its making a nice email addition to my Happy New Year's Email to my friends...LOL

haha that's cool

i must of done something wrong..i didnt get it either!

It's kind of a neat party trick and I used to be impressed by these. Really, though, you're inputting your telephone number into the equation. The rest of the math is just making sure that the numbers end up in the right place. In fact step 3 (add 1) and step 7 (subtract 250) are completely superfluous. They serve only to obfuscate the trick. Step 8 (divide by 2) would be unnecessary as well, except 80 x 250 = 20,000. If Step 1 were multiply by 40 or Step 4 were multiply by 125, then you could eliminate step 8.

WOW!!!...that's crazy!!!

When I take college algrebra will you tutor me?

Sure. Algebra isn't so bad. Just don't ask me to teach you calculus. That's where I barely manage to understand it myself, let alone well enough to teach it to somebody else.