So, we multiply first:
2 x 5 = 10
Then subtract that result from the chicken’s value:
4 – 10 = -6
And that’s it! The answer to this tricky puzzle is -6.
At first glance, it might seem easy. Just some animals and numbers, right? But what trips most people up is the order of operations. Lots of folks subtract before multiplying and get the wrong answer. But as we showed, you gotta multiply first, then subtract to get -6.
Another thing that makes it tricky is that people assume all rows follow the same pattern. But this puzzle mixes addition and multiplication, so you’ve gotta pay attention to each row’s details.