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| Thread ID: 139058 | 2015-03-03 23:16:00 | What is the correct answer? | Marnie (4574) | PC World Chat |
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| 1395652 | 2015-03-04 01:05:00 | You can get all mathematical and figure out it's 11 x the last digit + the sum of the other 2 or you can look down the columns of numbers and see one's 12345 and the other's 34567, allow for the fact there's one missing and either way come up with 79. But the question is expressed poorly, 111 clearly is not equal to 13. As a genius question goes whoever created it failed. I can't believe Sheldon had anything to do with it. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1395653 | 2015-03-04 20:18:00 | The last number on the left hand side series represents the 'tens' and the sum of all those numbers equals the 'ones', Hence 113 becomes 30 + (1+1+3) = 35 | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1395654 | 2015-03-04 22:01:00 | The last number on the left hand side series represents the 'tens' and the sum of all those numbers equals the 'ones', Hence 113 becomes 30 + (1+1+3) = 35 1. Is it not conventional to assign two different values to a symbol? If so your life must be tricky. :p |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1395655 | 2015-03-04 22:10:00 | Hmmm tried to correct my mangled language but editing didn't work, has anyone else had that happen? | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1395656 | 2015-03-04 22:27:00 | 6255 I can't decide whether it is 79 or 68 . What do you get? 79 . . . +11 (and it misses 116) . 2EZ |
lordnoddy (3645) | ||
| 1395657 | 2015-03-04 22:29:00 | 1. Is it not conventional to assign two different values to a symbol? If so your life must be tricky. :p My life isn't tricky (from my point of view, anyway), but 'unconventional' - I don't think anyone has called me that before, but I'll take it as a compliment!! :) I have been (and still am) accused of being a nerd - which again, I treat as a badge of honour! :) When I was a motorcycle courier years ago, my nickname was "Captain Sensible"... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1395658 | 2015-03-05 00:31:00 | I did try to correct the mangled language in my first post but couldn't What I was trying to say was that symbols generally are assigned a single value and once used in an equation are not given a second value later in the equation. This, if extrapolated into real life could mean that a word denoting one concept or thing could also mean something else, this of course is real, some words do, but it engenders confusion. Hence the tricky comment. I hope this clarifies my meaning. I don't think it is all that hard a puzzle, more a trick, as it relies on people finding the pattern and giving the next in the series without noticing that one line has been omitted. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1395659 | 2015-03-05 01:52:00 | My own thoughts are that there is no set time limit and many of us race in without pausing to think it through. I remember an exam paper that clearly stated "Read the whole test before you start". Many immediately started answering the questions. At the bottom of the last page, it stated "Do not answer the questions, sign your name and when time is up, hand the paper in". |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1395660 | 2015-03-05 02:14:00 | If 111 represents the money you wish to spend on a little job on your house, then 13 represents what will be spent on doing the project, the rest is Council Fees. LOL, very good. But we've never bothered with those fees.... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1395661 | 2015-03-05 09:44:00 | You can get all mathematical and figure out it's 11 x the last digit + the sum of the other 2 or you can look down the columns of numbers and see one's 12345 and the other's 34567, allow for the fact there's one missing and either way come up with 79. But the question is expressed poorly, 111 clearly is not equal to 13. As a genius question goes whoever created it failed. I can't believe Sheldon had anything to do with it. Quite right, 111=7, that's as plain as 1111=F as everybody must know. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
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