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Solve this very simple math puzzle in the picture click on the link to play the game and place your answer by replying to this thread good luck.


and for the one who loves maths, there is a neat pattern with the number 14 and it increases by 1 because of the constant 12 so neat. can you find it if you see it run it up to 20


Hint: find the lowest answer




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TheArtfulDogger you have the wrong answer because you cannot get 24 as the last result ever


You find one of pattern with the number 14 you right with the key however the bike start at a set number and increase by one on the line two and the key decrease by 2 on line two of my puzzle the only constant is the headphone and line three make the result increased by 11 every time


Look at line three carefully


good attempt

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barbara01 Wrote:

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> TheArtfulDogger you have the wrong answer because

> you cannot get 24 as the last result ever

>

> You find one of pattern with the number 14 you

> right with the key however the bike start at a set

> number and increase by one on the line two and the

> key decrease by 2 on line two of my puzzle the

> only constant is the headphone and line three make

> the result increased by 11 every time

>

> Look at line three carefully

>

> good attempt


Line 1

3 headphones are 36 therefore headphone is 12


Line 2

Bike plus headphone(12) minus key is 14 which can be achieved only where bike is 2 more then headphone



Using the above values


Line 3

Headphone are 12

Bike is 4

Key is 2


Therefore 4-2*12 is 24 as there are no brackets in the equation then it's linear


Therefore 24 is a valid answer unless you can prove otherwise


If you do the equation of 2*12 first then remove this number from bike (4) then the answer is -20


you didn't say it has to be a positive answer !

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You still wrong and I hinted to find the lowest answer has the pattern result increase by 11 every time and no negative result as you cannot find the other pattern with the result increasing by 11 every time if you start with the key at 0


24 is never a valid answer recalculate


your last line


4-2*12 = 20 and not 24

Bodmas apply


oh try to find the lowest positive result

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Or, if it is indeed nothing more than an underdetermined set of linear simultaneous equations, an infinite number of solutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underdetermined_system#Underdetermined_systems_with_other_constraints_and_in_optimization_problems. As implied by ed_pete's spreadsheet.


The fact that there were more unknowns than equations was obvious from the start. That in itself might lead the more open-minded of us to wonder, for a while, if it was in fact the kind of brainteaser where the implied fact that it had a single solution was a piece of information that was needed in order to solve it. But then the later 'hints' and 'clues' sought to add arbitrary constraints on the solution space that weren't included in the original presentation. The most obvious conclusion now is that we've probably been given a copy-and-paste of the illustration but not of the accompanying written part of the problem -- which seems otherwise to have been a very simple one.


At primary school we were once asked to provide a question for a class quiz. I burrowed in an encyclopedia and landed on a piece about Sir Edwin Landseer, who was said to have been able to draw when he was seven. I was apparently struck by that, probably because I wasn't much older myself and couldn't draw a toffee. So I turned up at school the next day with "What artist could draw when he was seven?" in my grubby hand. Mrs Price nicely put me right.

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