--- title: Indian Bride Ditches Groom For Flubbing Math Problem at Wedding description: He failed to add 15+6, and she wasn't having it canonical: https://time.com/3743971/india-bride-groom-math-test/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-13T14:14:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:38.496Z og:title: Indian Bride Ditches Groom For Flubbing Math Problem at Wedding og:description: The relationship just didn't add up og:url: https://time.com/3743971/india-bride-groom-math-test/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta23201586e838528/69878382e53aba7a634d80e3/479158147.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 16200 og:image:height: 9113 og:image:alt: 479158147 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Indian Bride Ditches Groom For Flubbing Math Problem at Wedding twitter:description: The relationship just didn't add up twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta23201586e838528/69878382e53aba7a634d80e3/479158147.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Indian Bride Ditches Groom After He Flubs Math Test at Their Wedding > Sponsored content. 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At her wedding ceremony in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Wednesday, the bride posed the following math problem to the man she was due to wed: 15 + 6 = ? The groom answered 17, and the bride fled. The groom’s family tried to get her back, but she refused to marry someone who couldn’t add. “The groom’s family kept us in the dark about his poor education,” Mohar Singh, the bride’s father, told the [Associated Press](http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia%5Fpacific/groom-fails-math-test-indian-bride-walks-out-of-wedding/2015/03/13/50d8c69e-c94e-11e4-bea5-b893e7ac3fb3%5Fstory.html). “Even a first grader can answer this.” The two families returned all the gifts that had been exchanged before the wedding, and the bride is presumably now looking for someone who knows all their multiplication tables. According to Indian tradition, most marriages are arranged by the families of the bride and groom, and the pair rarely get to actually meet before the wedding. So the fact that the bride and groom had just met wasn’t that unusual — but the math quiz certainly was. \[[AP](http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia%5Fpacific/groom-fails-math-test-indian-bride-walks-out-of-wedding/2015/03/13/50d8c69e-c94e-11e4-bea5-b893e7ac3fb3%5Fstory.html)\] ### Gathering of the Faithful: LIFE at India's Colossal Kumbh Mela, 1953  Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953. James Burke—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953. James Burke—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953. James Burke—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953. James Burke—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953. 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