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

Jul 6, 2020
1:38:11pm

cougarfann888 All-American

Assume that a light bulb is the same no matter how many rays it has and all the equations still work. You could also assume that since the bottom lightbulbs are smaller they are half the value and all the equations would still be correct.

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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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