you're just having to notice that there are 5 rays in the light bulb line versus 4 in the bottom equation

Jul 6, 2020
12:58:41pm

Bob Vance Truly Addicted User

Then you have to assume equal distribution in the first equation to get to the second. I agree with the above post that it's more about spotting the difference than actual math, but whatever.

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This math puzzle thing from Facebook is trickier than most. You may have seen it already.

cheezedawg medium

7/6/20 10:52am

RE: This math puzzle thing from Facebook is trickier than most. You may have

cougarfann888

7/6/20 10:56am

Nope

cheezedawg

7/6/20 10:57am

459

Cosmodiar

7/6/20 10:57am

That's what I got too.

Eddie

7/6/20 10:58am

666

Grit for Brains

7/6/20 10:56am

333

PHXSUNS31

7/6/20 10:57am

This is my answer

RealSimsShadY

7/6/20 10:59am

And it’s the correct answer

cheezedawg

7/6/20 11:00am

Explanation?

Eddie

7/6/20 11:01am

4 lines over the bulb time the three rings.

scootsy

7/6/20 11:02am

Just posted it below

cheezedawg

7/6/20 11:03am

Dumb. So they change the symbols on the last equation.

Grit for Brains

7/6/20 11:05am

This is my answer.

scootsy

7/6/20 11:00am

Oh, uh, this is TNT's answer

TNT

7/6/20 11:03am

333 Mini Explanation

AFewThoughts

7/6/20 12:03pm

405 - Assuming 2 of the bulbs on the final equation have 4 rings

AFewThoughts

7/6/20 12:11pm

The correct answer is the second half of your explanation

orangepitbull

7/6/20 12:13pm

Answer

darkcoug

7/6/20 10:57am

Except the numbers on the bottom calculator are 1224, not 1234 like the top ones. Also, I don’t know if the light beams

NWCoug

7/6/20 11:11am

Almost right

Sumguy

7/6/20 11:31am

Those are more "Spot the difference" than math.

mncstr

7/6/20 10:57am

Agree

cheezedawg

7/6/20 10:57am

Yep I missed the difference in the clocks on the upper row

cougarfann888

7/6/20 10:58am

I missed the difference in the calculators when I first did it

cheezedawg

7/6/20 11:00am

I missed the subtraction in the light bulb row.

bluescholar

7/6/20 11:05am

That's harder than what you think, for a lot of people

RealSimsShadY

7/6/20 10:58am

My answer

sethj250

7/6/20 10:57am

I'm going with 414 or 30,384

Fishious

7/6/20 10:58am

One person has the right answer posted so far

cheezedawg

7/6/20 10:58am

149

threezeroeight

7/6/20 10:58am

Correction, 117.

threezeroeight

7/6/20 10:59am

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TerribleOpinionsGuy

7/6/20 10:59am

855?

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

7/6/20 10:59am

Wait, I forgot PEMDAS...459

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

7/6/20 11:01am

414

ColoSpgs

7/6/20 11:02am

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coug almighty

7/6/20 11:03am

Explanation if you are interested

cheezedawg

7/6/20 11:03am

I think the lightbulb one is dumb and not sure how that’s supported.

cougarfann888

7/6/20 11:15am

you're just having to notice that there are 5 rays in the light bulb line versus 4 in the bottom equation

Bob Vance

7/6/20 12:58pm

Correct you have to assume equal distribution. You could just as easily

cougarfann888

7/6/20 1:38pm

Like in my response above, we can assume the light beam difference is intentional. But only the original creator really

NWCoug

7/6/20 11:16am

Yeah agree.

cheezedawg

7/6/20 11:27am

(just saw cheesedawg's explanation)

StarMan

7/6/20 11:04am

My vote is 333

blueandWHITE

7/6/20 11:07am

joelvandyne

7/6/20 11:07am

RE: 69

cheezedawg

7/6/20 11:08am

RE: 69

scootsy

7/6/20 11:09am

Nice.

Fishious

7/6/20 11:14am

RE: 69

yballa09

7/6/20 11:21am

333

Tesla Coug

7/6/20 11:10am

Impossible to answer. The values for each variable in the final equation are

Scratch

7/6/20 11:11am

RE: Impossible to answer. The values for each variable in the final equation

TerribleOpinionsGuy

7/6/20 11:13am

Wrong

socorny

7/6/20 1:38pm

How's it not 414? What am I missing?

ClackamasCoug

7/6/20 11:25am

RE: How's it not 423? What am I missing?

cougarfann888

7/6/20 11:26am

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ClackamasCoug

7/6/20 11:29am

The differences that can be missed:

cheezedawg

7/6/20 11:33am

You also missed the bottom of the lightbulb rows - See response above

AFewThoughts

7/6/20 12:14pm

Yeah- the rings weren’t clear enough to me on the small bulbs for me to count them for sure so I just went with rays

cheezedawg

7/6/20 12:22pm

333

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