What number of of those puzzles are you able to clear up?
0:00 Puzzle 1
Let’s begin with a straightforward one.
1:25 Puzzle 2
Every of 16 college students makes use of both a bicycle or a tricycle. If the entire variety of wheels is 38, what number of college students use a tricycle?
3:36 Puzzle 3
This was posted to Good, and solely 36% of individuals gave the proper reply. (That’s solely barely higher than the 33% random likelihood of guessing).
6:16 Puzzle 4
7:34 Puzzle 5
10:11 Puzzle 6
You may have a uncommon however treatable medical situation. Each day, you have to take a dose of 1 pill of drugs A and 1 pill of drugs B.
In case you take the mistaken dose, you’re going to get sick. You should be very cautious as a result of the tablets look similar.
You might be fortunately having fun with a trip when dangerous luck strikes. With 2 days left, you clumsily drop the 4 remaining tablets on the ground and so they get combined up.
You don’t have any method to get extra drugs. What are you able to do?
14:12 Puzzle 7
This can be a enjoyable downside I noticed on Reddit AskMath. A circle accommodates two squares with sides of 4 and a couple of cm that overlap at one level, as proven. What’s the space of the circle?
As standard, watch the video for an answer.
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Reply To 7 puzzles that may take a look at your abilities
(Just about all posts are transcribed shortly after I make the movies for them–please let me know if there are any typos/errors and I’ll right them, thanks).
0:00 Puzzle 1
There are 16 geese.
1:27 Puzzle 2
Every of 16 college students makes use of both a bicycle or a tricycle. If the entire variety of wheels is 38, what number of college students use a tricycle?
Let x be the variety of college students who use a tricycle, which has 3 wheels. Then 16 – x is the variety of college students who use a bicycle with 2 wheels. The full variety of wheels is 38, so now we have:
3x + 2(16 – x) = 38
3x + 32 – 2x = 38
x + 32 = 38
x = 6
There are 6 college students who use a tricycle.
Here’s a enjoyable trick to unravel the issue. Think about all 16 college students used a bicycle. This might be 16×2 = 32 wheels. However we’d like 6 extra wheels to get to 38, and each tricycle provides precisely 1 wheel. So there are 6 college students who use a tricycle.
3:37 Puzzle 3
If the automotive truly is in field 1, then the statements for field 1 and a couple of could be right, which is a contradiction.
If the automotive truly is in field 3, then the statements for field 2 and three could be right, a contradiction.
The automotive should be in field 2. Certainly, then solely the assertion for field 3 is right. You must choose field 2.
6:16 Puzzle 4
7:34 Puzzle 5
Change the equation as follows
(10 + i)(10 – i)
= 102 – i2
= 100 – (-1)
= 101
10:12 Puzzle 6
Line the tablets up, and cut up them in half within the center. Take the entire higher halves sooner or later, and the entire decrease halves the opposite day.
Irrespective of how the tablets had been organized, you’ll at all times get half of two tablets of A and half of two tablets of B, leading to precisely 1 dose of A and 1 dose of B on every day!
14:13 Puzzle 7
The credit score for the answer goes to u/testtest26.
Let the bigger sq. be ABCD with AB a chord of the circle. Assemble the perpendicular bisector of AB which passes by the circle’s heart, name that O. Let Ok be the endpoint of the perpendicular bisector on the circle, H be the intersection with AB and L be the endpoint on CD. Let the circle’s radius be r, and let KH = x. The facet AB is bisected by KH so AH = 4/2 = 2. Additionally assemble OD.
We’ve got 2 proper triangles OAH and ODL. We thus get the 2 equations:
AH2 + OH2 = OA2
22 + (r – x)2 = r2
DL2 + OL2 = OD2
22 + (4 + x – r)2 = OD2
We’ll do an analogous building with the opposite sq..
Let MN = y, and we hav EM = 2/2 = 1. Thus we get the 2 equations:
EM2 + OM2 = OE2
12 + (r – y)2 = r2
DP2 + OP2 = OD2
12 + (r – y – 2)2 = OD2
We’ve got 4 equations. The video reveals the best way to clear up it by hand (it’s fairly tedious–you clear up for r – x and r – y within the first equation of every set, then substitute to the second equations and hold squaring to take away all radicals).
For this submit I’ll shortcut with WolframAlpha. Taking solely optimistic distances there are 2 potential options for the radius:
r = √(2(5 – 2√2))
r ≈ 2.084
r = √(2(5 + 2√2))
r ≈ 3.9569
For the circle to comprise squares of sides 4 and a couple of, the circle will need to have an space bigger than the world of the squares which is 16 + 4 = 20. That is solely potential within the second answer case. Thus now we have the world of the circle is:
πr2 = π(10 + 4√2) ≈ 49.19 cm2
I ought to point out many individuals assume they’ve discovered a better answer by assuming A, D and F are collinear.
I agree the issue will likely be comparatively easy with this step. Nonetheless, this step can’t be assumed, and I’ve but to see a straightforward to show it. In case you do discover a answer, I counsel you submit it to Reddit in any of the threads linked under so everybody can be taught.
puzzle 1 what number of geese
https://www.rd.com/article/how-many-ducks-do-you-see/
puzzle 2 what number of tricycles
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/478212/is-there-another-simpler-method-to-solve-this-elementary-school-math-problem?noredirect=1&lq=1
puzzle 3
https://www.fb.com/brilliantorg/posts/there-are-3-boxes-one-of-them-has-a-car-that-you-get-to-keepon-each-box-there-is/1060322677328094/
https://mathematicaldonuts.substack.com/p/which-box-has-the-car
https://www.indy100.com/viral/brain-teaser-puzzle-box-brilliant-logic-7390776
https://www.thesun.co.uk/residing/2098955/only-36-per-cent-of-people-can-solve-this-mind-boggling-brainteaser-about-a-car-in-a-box-are-you-one-of-them/
puzzle 6
https://www.mathsisfun.com/puzzles/take-two-tablets-solution.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/riddles/feedback/wgpez/goldman_sachs_supposedly_asked_this_riddle_during/
puzzle 7
Drawback
https://www.reddit.com/r/askmath/feedback/1iwxdq2/find_the_area_of_the_circle/
answer by u/testtest26
https://www.reddit.com/r/askmath/feedback/1iwxdq2/remark/mehv44p/
arduous to show straight line
https://www.reddit.com/r/maths/feedback/15ubhwk/geometry_question/
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