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#1 2008-07-29 20:12:44
- ali_rulz
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Help With A Maths Puzzle!
Hey all.
I am hoping someone on here will be able to help me complete this puzzle...
The hint is:
There are multiple answers for this puzzle, however your final answer should be in the 40 to 80 range.
Please find the puzzle attached...
I hope you can help me!:)
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#2 2008-07-29 23:58:13
- JaneFairfax
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Re: Help With A Maths Puzzle!
One possibility:
Wait a minute, thats not between 40 and 80. Sorry, it must be wrong. 
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#3 2008-07-30 00:32:35
- mathsyperson
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Re: Help With A Maths Puzzle!
Jane's thinking too hard. The four box-groups don't form a sequence with each other, the same simple rule is applied to all of them.
Multiplying the top two boxes and seeing what you get is a good place to start though.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#4 2008-07-30 00:37:59
- ali_rulz
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Re: Help With A Maths Puzzle!
thanx for your help so far.... still trying to get it!
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#5 2008-07-30 01:33:12
- ZHero
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Re: Help With A Maths Puzzle!
I've got it (i believe)!!
Its 56!!
If two or more thoughts intersect, there has to be a point!
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#6 2008-07-30 01:38:07
- ZHero
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Re: Help With A Maths Puzzle!
To get the number below the two boxes above, follow the procedure below..
Let the two numbers in the top boxes be 'a' and 'b'. Multiply 'a' and 'b' and call it 'x'. Then, divide 'a' by 3 and multiply it with 'b' and call it 'y'. Now just add 'x' and 'y' and you get the number in the bottom centre box!!
That's only just one of the multiple possibilities... 
If two or more thoughts intersect, there has to be a point!
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#7 2008-07-30 01:40:36
- ZHero
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Just noticed.. Jane you were too too close! Just a '1' in place of '5' in the last one!!! 
If two or more thoughts intersect, there has to be a point!
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#8 2008-07-30 02:35:55
- JaneFairfax
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Re: Help With A Maths Puzzle!
To get the number below the two boxes above, follow the procedure below..
Let the two numbers in the top boxes be 'a' and 'b'. Multiply 'a' and 'b' and call it 'x'. Then, divide 'a' by 3 and multiply it with 'b' and call it 'y'. Now just add 'x' and 'y' and you get the number in the bottom centre box!!That's only just one of the multiple possibilities...
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#9 2008-07-30 06:31:11
- TheDude
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Re: Help With A Maths Puzzle!
To get the number below the two boxes above, follow the procedure below..
Let the two numbers in the top boxes be 'a' and 'b'. Multiply 'a' and 'b' and call it 'x'. Then, divide 'a' by 3 and multiply it with 'b' and call it 'y'. Now just add 'x' and 'y' and you get the number in the bottom centre box!!That's only just one of the multiple possibilities...
That can be simplified to
. I initially fell into the same trap Jane did and thought of the boxes in a sequence (and came up with the same, incorrect, answer too
).
Wrap it in bacon
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#10 2008-07-30 07:13:47
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Re: Help With A Maths Puzzle!
It IS 56
Take the left number (i.e. 6,9,12,3) and times it by 4/3.
Then multiply the subsequent number by the right number (i.e. 4,7,6,14)
So how you get the answer is
3 x 4/3=4
4 x 14 = 56
#11 2008-07-30 19:53:52
- ali_rulz
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Re: Help With A Maths Puzzle!
thanx all so much! that was the correct answer! 56!!!
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