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Since the Beagles one went so well.

No words this time, which should make it easier...

Maths Puzzle

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:29 pm
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RPN FTW!

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:32 pm
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43 because BODMAS.

Really needs brackets

edited because I missed the double cones.

double edited because I also missed the double shoes.

triple edit : i give up because  i just noticed that that little dick is wearing shoes and carrying two cones and I don’t even know if he self identifies as a beagle.

9 pages.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:32 pm
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43

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:32 pm
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Nearly missed the sneaky multiplication. I really hope there's no way this one can generate as much argument as the beagles did.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:33 pm
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Really needs brackets

Doesn't...

 because BODMAS.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:34 pm
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Doesn’t…

Does. Not because maths.

Because argumentative wallopers.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:35 pm
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30 , because BODMAS.

I think this but have no desire for brackets

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:36 pm
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20?

 
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33

 
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This is less a maths puzzle and more a deliberately obtuse obversation puzzle.

 
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1/2

 
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Unless I've missed something its 23

5+9x2

5+18

23

Edit:

I did miss something its

5+19x2

5+38

43

 
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<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">564. You can't see that most of the chips have trainers on.</span>

<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">RM.</span>

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:39 pm
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on second thoughts 43 maybe?

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:39 pm
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Any relevance in the russian chip cone being slanted in the last line?

crazy how so many identical puzzles (but with different pictures) come up with so many different answers.

 
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On a related  note.... I hate you GrahamS and the earth is  definitely flat. 😉

 
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5+5x2

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:44 pm
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What does scally carrying 2 chip cones wearing boots equate to? Scally*chip cones*boots? Scally/chip cones*boots? Scally*chip cones/boots?

I'm not playing.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:44 pm
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Stealth edits and showing your working are definitely cheating 🙂

@perchypanther: 😂

 
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What you can’t see is that one of the chip cones also contains a concealed shoe and that one of the shoes conceals a chip cone but it’s not clear which one it is.

So, none of the beagles are male.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:46 pm
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Use the graph paper to work out the relative area of the objects.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:47 pm
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Doh, also missed the double cones.  Saw the X and thought I'd sussed the FB clickbait puzzle but should have looked harder or better yet ignored the whole thing 🙁

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:49 pm
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When little dick's wearing pink hightops, has he got his other shoes and socks underneath? Or not and if not how much were they worth?

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:53 pm
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Is one shoe worth half a pair or absolutely nothing?

 
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As others have said (& PP eventually), 43, but this HP calculator claims 133 - głupi odwrotny zapis polski!

 
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Pink hightops , a skinhead and a facial tattoo

It’s a bold look.

 
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I got it at 48....no doubt wrong

 
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Is one shoe worth half a pair or absolutely nothing?

For the sake of the question we're assuming a burgeoning market in single shoes for amputees.

 
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60

 
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I'm sure at least one stealth edit actually changed to make the answer more incorrect.

Before calling these clickbait things a maths puzzle, I think they really ought to be called a simple test of observation.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 3:57 pm
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This is worse than getting on with my job.  Whoever said 43 I'm agreeing with you.....for now

 
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28

 
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Now that there a few different answers kicking about we now have to form tribes based  on our choice and get entrenched for 9 pages of warfare.

#team43 #16stonepigisthewinner

 
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I think it's 43.

 
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form tribes based  on our choice and get entrenched for 9 pages of warfare.

Shouldn't we just perform some team building exercises and finish with a presentation to the others?

 
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Of course we don't know the relative values of left boot and right boot. They could both be 5 or one could be 7 and the other 3. But which is which?

Therefore totally unsolvable.

But yeah, 48.

 
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48

 
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But yeah, 48.

Burn the heretic!

 
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10 + 10 + 10 = 30

5 + 5 + 10 = 20

4 + 4 + 5 = 13

5 + (5 + 4) x 2 = 28

Didn't notice half the detail on the bottom line for my first attempt.

 
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surely we need clarity on if the left shoe and right shoe are of equal value?

we know that a left AND a right shoe =10, but it's not clear what the individual values are of left and right.

EDIT - beaten to it while typing...

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 4:11 pm
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One could argue that the answer could potentially be 51, but would need a non-blurry image for that.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 4:12 pm
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we know that a left AND a right shoe =10, but it’s not clear what the individual values are of left and right.

This is crazy talk. There are not left and right shoes, just shoes. So its 50%. And they smell like hell as the little dick stood in beagle shit.

 
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superseded

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 4:21 pm
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must be missing something cos im getting 15 and nobody else has put that yet.....

EDIT:  missed that extra middle bit, i make it 23 now...

EDIT EDIT:  missed BOTH sneaky middle bits, 43 now.

 
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As JW but isn't the result of last line 23

 
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A skinhead with a scar, scowl, and clenched fists is undoubtedly a drain on the system. How many times has he been in jail and will re-offend?

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 4:28 pm
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It's not 23, nor 28

and 23 doesn't equal 28 either 😉

nor is it 15

although 23 does feature in my suggestion of 51, but I can't commit to that because the image has been re-JPGed too many times.

 
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A skinhead with a scar, scowl, and clenched fists is undoubtedly a drain on the system.

Are you saying he's worth nothing?

Actually the scar is from an Olympic fencing accident. He shaved his head for charity and his fists are clenched because he's about to sprint into action delivering bags of chips to a homeless people.

 
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You know these things are only created to create comments don't you? More comments = more money for the page that produced it. So you come up with something that has multiple answers so people can argue about it for days.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 4:42 pm
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Why do you think I posted it here Alex?

There are not multiple answers to this though. There is one correct answer and an infinite number of wrong answers. 🙂

 
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10 + 10 + 10 = 30 ....> 1 shoe = 5

5 + 5 + 10 = 20........> 1 boy = 5

4 + 4 + 5 = 13........> 1 chips = 2

5 + (5 x 2) = 15

 
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Logic failure, the boy with the chips and pink boots is neither the boy, or the chips but a totally new constant - surely we don't know what this new constant is unless we know what it is equal to? Is it equal to a 1 Boy + 2 Chips + 2 boots or 1 Boy x 2 chips x boots etc?

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 5:02 pm
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Look closer @fruitbat

 
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Logic failure, the boy with the chips is neither the boy, or the chips but a totally new constant – surely we don’t know what this new constant is unless we know what it is equal to?

A five pound note and a fifty pence are two different 'constants' but you still know that value they have when you place them together.

 
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Why do you think I posted it here Alex?

Ah - you're generating income for the forum - excellent - well done!

 
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If you are thinking in terms of money, yes - it would be a simple addition.

But that is not given, all the symbols are - are a replacement for algebraic terms.

I call shenanigans!

 
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Ah – you’re generating income for the forum – excellent – well done!

Aren't we all?

 
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I said it during beagle madness and I’ll say it again here, the answer is 50/50 or 1 in 3.

I get 172, but I am shite at mathematics

Bollocks I get 78.

Shit - 48. That picture is miles away when you’re on page 2 😂

 
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10 + 10 + 10 = 30 ….> 1 shoe = 5

5 + 5 + 10 = 20……..> 1 boy = 5

4 + 4 + 5 = 13……..> 1 chips = 2

5 + (5 + 10 + 4)x2 = 43

 
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20

 
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The thing is all about boot left and boot right.

BL ≠ BR. We were told so on a recent thread.

 
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Didn’t notice half the detail on the bottom line for my first attempt.

Indeed, skinhead is wearing boots as well as holding chips.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 5:13 pm
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43 if 5+(19*2)

or

48 if (5+19)*2

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 5:14 pm
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Boot = 5

Skinhead = 5

Two Boots = 10

Two Chips = 4

multiply by a single portion of chips = 48

Where the **** would this be useful in real life?

Edit - Just zoomed in and the skinhead in the final picture has eighteen more dots of stubble. It’s a different skinhead of unknown value. £500 plus VAT is the answer!

 
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what a ****y gif!

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 5:26 pm
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Where the **** would this be useful in real life?

In a Beagle shop.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 5:36 pm
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Boot = 5

Skinhead = 5

Two Boots = 10

Two Chips = 4

multiply by a single portion of chips = 48

Where the **** would this be useful in real life?

Running a combined mobile heel-bar and chip van during Ska weekender at Butlins

 
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It's 43.

this HP calculator claims 133 – głupi odwrotny zapis polski!

I had to learn Reverse Polish Notation at college.  We called it Egdelp.

or

48 if (5+19)*2

Google BODMAS and come back to us.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 6:01 pm
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Google BODMAS and come back to us.

Was going to say the say the same.

However I'm far from convinced little dick wearing pink hi tops and carrying a couple of cones of chips should automatically equal 19. Could just as easily be 200 (4*5*10)

 
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A five pound note and a fifty pence are two different ‘constants’ but you still know that value they have when you place them together.

So if I place a number five and a number 0 together is that a five or a fifty I have just generated?

 
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However I’m far from convinced little dick wearing pink hi tops and carrying a couple f cones of chips should automatically equal 19.

These things are usually designed to be ambiguous, so loads of people argue and it essentially becomes clickbait.  This one is flawed, but far less stupidly vague than many.

 
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Running a combined mobile heel-bar and chip van during Ska weekender at Butlins

It it would seem Butlins has changed somewhat over the years

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 6:25 pm
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@convert: it’s not digits though, it’s abstract representations of values.

Not sure why you would multiply them?

If I said a red casino chip was worth 50 and a blue chip was worth 25 then asked you what a 2 reds and 1 blue was worth then you wouldn’t multiply them together to get an answer.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 7:46 pm
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So if I took one of your red chips and pt two little blue dots on it would it now be worth 100?

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 7:55 pm
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So if I place a number five and a number 0 together is that a five or a fifty I have just generated?

 
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Not sure why you would multiply them?

What if it said XX+XX+XX= 30?

XX = 10 but that doesn't mean X = 5. X=√10 would be a better answer imo. Not sure how that relates to wearing the (much smaller) shoes though.

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 8:42 pm
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So if I took one of your red chips and pt two little blue dots on it would it now be worth 100?

Yeah sure. You’ll just need to speak to management in one of the VIP rooms...

XX = 10 but that doesn’t mean X = 5

Well no. But if you correctly said 2x = 10 ...

 
Posted : 19/11/2018 9:02 pm
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Google BODMAS and come back to us

Ta, never heard of that before and always used brackets...everyday a school day.

 
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To be fair, when in doubt, use brackets.

 
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