MIT's 1869 entrance exam paper goes viral, with the internet saying: “Can be solved mentally without…”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) admission paper for 1869-1870 has gone viral on the internet. The exam paper was shared by a user in a Reddit post and is dated June 1869, eight years after the institute's founding. For those who don't know, MIT was founded on April 10, 1861 Reddit post has sparked a wave of curiosity and conversation among internet users, with many users saying the problem was easy to solve.

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Internet Calls 1869 MIT Entrance Paper “Simple”

One user commented on the post and wrote: “None of the above problems require a calculator! They only require basic knowledge of algebra. To be honest, most problems can be solved in your head without even putting pen to paper. But I understand that math isn't necessarily for everyone… :D”. Another user said: “Good to know I could have joined MIT in 1870.”
“Yes these are surprisingly easy, I haven't actually solved them but there's nothing here I can't solve and I only have high school level math from decades ago,” a third commented. While a fourth user replied: “Might be a bit easy for today's high school students, but what I would like to point out is that the exam is trivially designed to be solved with almost no calculations since calculators are obviously not for that.” another century.”
According to Britannica, MIT was founded by the state of Massachusetts in 1861 and became a land-grant college in 1863. MIT has numerous research centers and laboratories, including a nuclear reactor, a computing center, geophysical and astrophysical observatories, a linear accelerator, a space research center, wind tunnels, an artificial intelligence laboratory, a cognitive science center, and an international studies center.