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How many cents? Lateral thinking question - ANSWER ON PAGE 3 (pg. 3)
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| Trance Nutter |
no but getting closer.
Out of curiousity, how did you get 703? |
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| Omega_M |
| I just interpreted the first line as 90 x 3 cents. The rest I added as it is. |
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| Trance Nutter |
no unfortunatley
what was your theory there? |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance Nutter
no unfortunatley
what was your theory there? |
i expanded on omegas thing. i did his thought and then did 2.49*55. then rounded to the nearest whole number. |
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| Trance Nutter |
ok
heres one thought I had after seeing Omega's theory:
consider there are 3 cent words, use that as a multiplier
I tried 93*3 + 249 + 55*3 + 129*3
but it wasn't the right answer
using *2 doesn't either.
(ie multiply the numbers with "cent" attached by the number of "cent" words)
adding only 49 rather than 249 also doesn't work. |
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| Trance Nutter |
ok the answer they gave was 746
I have no idea how they can arrive at that number. Anyone able to work it out? |
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| JD8180 |
question for you, does the $ sign mean AUD currency for you? if not, i used omega's theory and changed USD $2.49 to AUD currency. maybe the 3 cents missing has to do with what the exchange rate at that time was compared to now?
the closest i got was:
90*3=270
+55
+129
=454
249*1.16=289
454+289=743 |
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| tubularbills |
| i don't have a page 3 :( |
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| Trance Nutter |
its an Australian show so $2.49 is right.
besides if it was a different currency all the amounts would need converting, which would still give you the same answer (relatively) |
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