Monday, May 30, 2011

A Numerical Mind



What you see here is a standard one math question. They are asking us to guess what would be the number in the last bracket. Funny thing is..the first time I looked at it.. I didn't think mathematics at all. I just stared at the shapes and thought.. they are missing one circle with a triangle in it. Because three and four have different shapes on the outside, I developed a pattern whereby all the same shapes on the outside cannot be next to each other and therefore the last column has to be 2.


What's the answer? 7.

How? Algebra.

Funny how I could have come up with such a weirddd solution :/ I took alevels maths for 1 and a half years and it really didn't come across to me to think .... plus and minus at all.


lol such a meaningless post but the many questions of a mind will never come to an end.

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