Explain this one.

[Beebeeblue]

This riddle must be done IN YOUR HEAD and not using pen and
paper. Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total?


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Did you get 5000?
The correct answer is actually 4100. Don't believe it?
Check it with a calculator or on paper!! The brain sure knows how to
play little tricks on us, doesn't it ?

 

[Earthmuffin]

Actually.....

I know my mind can play tons of little and big tricks, that is why I play here in my *spare* time....4100

 

[SweetNick]

That was hard? All you do is add the thousands, then the rest.

 

[Todd]

all right i only got 3659

 

[Dillinger]

Hmmm... I got 23...

 

[SungHi]

Math?

Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. Did you get 5000?

I took a darling guy, who is in location 1000 on my cell phone memory, to see the new Chocolate movie, and we split 40 gummy bears as he made petting moves up my skirt, so to distract that nasty business, I suggested a game where we played it was 1000 years in the future, but as we giggled about that 30 other people in the theater shusssshed and growled at us, so then we bit our lips and went out to his Audi 1000 and drove 20 miles to this cheasey roadhouse motel, and we stomped our feet and snorted uncontrollably when they put us in room 1000.

Oh, and the 10? That was my orgasm.

But how would I ever get 5000 outa that?