India, April 13 -- An American founder and investor has been accused of lying after she claimed that most job-seekers cannot solve a simple algebra problem. Lauren Balik is the founder of Upright Analytics who describes herself as a "data wrangler" on the social media platform X. In a post shared one day ago, Balik alleged that while many people struggle with her basic algebra question, the failure rate is especially high among H-1B visa holders.

In fact, she says that all H-1B visa holders fail to solve the equation.

So what is this equation that stumps almost everyone? See if you can solve for x:

5(x) + 2 = 12

"I have literally made people solve: '5(x) + 2 = 12, what is x?' in job interviews and most people fail it. CMOs, data engin...