Digital Publishing Creativity Blog Post 4
For this week's creativity exercise, I found this IQ test on YouTube, you can find it at: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h4XSAkrEuyo
It presents the following equations:
1. 1 + 4 = 5
2. 2 + 5 = 12
3. 3 + 6 = 21
4. 8 + 11 = ?
They claim 99.9% fail to answer...
First of all, I like math, secondly, I like pattern and logic puzzles, so this caught my eye.
#1. Is logical, 1+4 = 5
But:
#2. 2+5 = 7
#3. 3+6 = 9
This is a mathematical reasoning puzzle, so you must identify how they are manipulating the equations to obtain the modified results.
Looking at #2. I began playing with formulas.
To arrive at 12, I noticed that you can multiply 2 by 5 and obtain 10. If you then add the first digit, 2, you get 10 + 2 = 12.
I tried the same thing to #3. If you multiply 3 by 6, it equals 18, and adding the first digit, 3, you end up with a result of 18 + 3 = 21.
In order to ensure this is the intended rule, I went back to #1. If you take 1×4, you get 4+1 equals 5.
So this is the rule, the pattern they are applying to this IQ test.
So the answer to #4 is 8×11 = 88, and then add the first digit equals 8+88 = 96
The answer to the question mark is 96.
Therefore, #4. 8 + 11 = 96.
No comments:
Post a Comment