> Popular questions require more deletion votes to be deleted, at a ratio of 20:1 - a question's popularity is defined as: question score + top-scored answer score. For example, a question with (question score 15 + top answer score 5 = 20) will require 4 deletion votes (3 base votes + 1 popularity vote).
> The maximum number of delete votes needed will not exceed 10.
In this case 164+18=182. So there are "9 popularity votes". Together with "3 base votes" it exceeds 10.