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 Scucca  Ely 11 Mar 16 5.10pm |
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So how do you know the door number is 13, when it isn't in the question?
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 mr. apollo  Somewhere in Switzerland 11 Mar 16 5.32pm |
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Originally posted by Scucca
So how do you know the door number is 13, when it isn't in the question? Because there ISN'T enough information, soooo there are only 2 combinations that multiply together that have the same addition. So we still can't know the answer...
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| Scucca Ely 11 Mar 16 5.43pm |
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Originally posted by mr. apollo
Because there ISN'T enough information, soooo there are only 2 combinations that multiply together that have the same addition. So we still can't know the answer... Ah,now I see it all ... Some of it
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| Hoof Hearted 12 Mar 16 8.39am | |
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Originally posted by Stuk
Because there's no other triple that multiplies to equal 36 and adds to equal 10. Where is 10 mentioned in the clues? The teacher doesn't say what number is on the door, so it could quite easily be 13.
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| Lucas Oliver Miles away 12 Mar 16 9.41am |
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Originally posted by Hoof Hearted
Where is 10 mentioned in the clues? The teacher doesn't say what number is on the door, so it could quite easily be 13. It's also easily possible for 2 siblings to be the same age for some of the year for your average pregnancy, and that's not even taking in to account that one could be premature and the other well overdue. Confusing mathematical variables with real life variables is poor. 4.3.3 for me
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| Hoof Hearted 12 Mar 16 9.49am | |
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Originally posted by Lucas Oliver
It's also easily possible for 2 siblings to be the same age for some of the year for your average pregnancy, and that's not even taking in to account that one could be premature and the other well overdue. Confusing mathematical variables with real life variables is poor. 4.3.3 for me Exactly....... I like my mathematical conundrums to have one answer that is undisputable. This one could, be anyone of the following answers... 4, 3, 3 6, 6, 1 2, 2, 9 Simply because the clues given do not state the number on the door.
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| mr. apollo Somewhere in Switzerland 12 Mar 16 3.53pm |
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It can't be 433 as that equals 10 and no other combination does, Both 661 and 229 equal 13 so qualify 661 wins as it has a younger child and not twins
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| Stuk Top half 12 Mar 16 6.53pm |
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Originally posted by Hoof Hearted
Exactly....... I like my mathematical conundrums to have one answer that is undisputable. This one could, be anyone of the following answers... 4, 3, 3 6, 6, 1 2, 2, 9 Simply because the clues given do not state the number on the door. The fact that the question eludes to the door number means that you're going to need to work that out too, to get the correct answer.
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| Lucas Oliver Miles away 12 Mar 16 7.22pm |
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Yeah get it now, can't be 4,3,3 as another question was needed for the door number. But it still could be 9,2,2 or 6,6,1 as one of the 2 year olds could be 3 tomorrow and the other 2 yesterday.
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| Stuk Top half 12 Mar 16 7.35pm |
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Originally posted by Lucas Oliver
Yeah get it now, can't be 4,3,3 as another question was needed for the door number. But it still could be 9,2,2 or 6,6,1 as one of the 2 year olds could be 3 tomorrow and the other 2 yesterday. That's why I put "youngest" in quotes in my initial explanation as you need to presume there'll be a definitive one in whole numbers/years. Even twins have a "youngest" if you take it back to smaller units.
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| Hoof Hearted 13 Mar 16 10.08am | |
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Originally posted by Stuk
The fact that the question eludes to the door number means that you're going to need to work that out too, to get the correct answer. But we don't know the door number (as no clues are given by the teacher) so the actual door number is a complete red herring and it doesn't matter if it is 13 or 10. I would say to the teacher - "you're obviously not very good at setting riddles love.... why don't you just tell us who your kids are, their names and ages, so we can all get on with our lives..."
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| mr. apollo Somewhere in Switzerland 13 Mar 16 10.19am |
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Originally posted by Hoof Hearted
But we don't know the door number (as no clues are given by the teacher) so the actual door number is a complete red herring and it doesn't matter if it is 13 or 10. I would say to the teacher - "you're obviously not very good at setting riddles love.... why don't you just tell us who your kids are, their names and ages, so we can all get on with our lives..." What we do know is the door number cant give us the answer... therefore there must be more than one possible combination that equals the door number, the only 3 multiples that make 36 which ave the same sum are 9,2,2, and 6,6,1 so the door number HAS to be 13.
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