Brain teaser I cannot work out. Help?

lm01

Someone sent me an email of puzzles today, and I've finished them all and got most of them right, but there is one I cannot for the life of me figure out.

It's like this:


04___14______11___34

35___26______73___??


I've been told the answer is 55, but I still can't even work out what the relationships between the numbers are now that I know! I've been working away at this all day, and I still can't come up with anything. Can anyone explain it so that I can go to sleep in peace? This thing has my head demented.

dees99

Can't get it! ��

TheBrinch

I feel like an ass because im fairly sure i have it.....but im not going to tell you

stefan idiot jones

42.

we'llallhavetea

minus 18?!?!

i think you just take away ten more than you did in the first scenario

edit: actually no fcuking idea.. :P

lukesmom

lm01 wrote: »

Someone sent me an email of puzzles today, and I've finished them all and got most of them right, but there is one I cannot for the life of me figure out.

It's like this:


04___14______11___34

34___26______73___??


I've been told the answer is 55, but I still can't even work out what the relationships between the numbers are now that I know! I've been working away at this all day, and I still can't come up with anything. Can anyone explain it so that I can go to sleep in peace? This thing has my head demented.

34+11 = 45 14-4= 10 10+45=55
73 -26= 47 34-26= 8. 47+8 = 55

Amirani

Difference between 4 and 14 is 10.
Difference between 14 and 11 is 3.
Sum of these is 13.
Add this number to 11 to get 34.

Repeat the exact same process on the second line to give 55.

osarusan

NiallSparky wrote: »

Sum of these is 13.
Add this number to 11 to get 34.

24?

Cee-Jay-Cee

NiallSparky wrote: »

Difference between 4 and 14 is 10.
Difference between 14 and 11 is 3.
Sum of these is 13.
Add this number to 11 to get 34.

Repeat the exact same process on the second line to give 55.

Oh yeaaah...

Amirani

osarusan wrote: »

24?

Hmmm. Think I may have messed that up in my head.

lm01

I can't believe I did this, but looking over the answers I realise I made a typo in the original post. It should be 35, not 34!

So sorry to anyone who tried it before now, but I've been trying with 35 and still can't work it out... It's supposed to be a transformation, like there's a relationship between the top line that when applied to the bottom line would give you 55 for the 4th number.

Lando Griffin

Im getting 52.

Trow El 555

If you turn it upsidedown, the first line is
HELL, HI HO


or SELL, HI HO

lm01

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Im getting 52.

That was one of the options, but apparently not the correct one. What are you using to get 52?

Fuzzy Clam

I can see a relationship between the 2 sets of the top numbers.
4 (×3+2)=14, 11(×3+2)=35

Lost after that.

Amirani

04___14______11___35

35___26______73___??

Abs(4-14) + Abs(-14-11) = 35
Abs(35-26) + Abs(26-73) = 55

Closest I could get. Still cheated by changing the sign, but it may help someone else.

osarusan

As I understand the corrected post, the 4th number on the top line is still 34.

It is only the first number on the bottom line that has changed to 35.

wonderfullife

NiallSparky wrote: »

04___14______11___35

35___26______73___??

Abs(4-14) + Abs(-14-11) = 35
Abs(35-26) + Abs(26-73) = 55

Closest I could get. Still cheated, but it may help someone else.

top line yeah but bottom line?

35 - 26 = 9

26-73 = 47

56 no?

wonderfullife

to be honest i think the OP made a balls of this post and wouldnt be surprised if that equation is still wrong somehow lol

34-26 = 8

73 -26 = 47

I suppose you could get your 55 somehow that way (if it was 34)

Amirani

wonderfullife wrote: »

top line yeah but bottom line?

35 - 26 = 9

26-73 = 47

56 no?

Sorry, I was using the 34 that the OP had initially, and ended up transcribing his corrected version.

wonderfullife

NiallSparky wrote: »

Sorry, I was using the 34 that the OP had initially, and ended up transcribing his corrected version.

my reading of the OP is :

I'm not 100% sure if this question is right

and

I'm not 100% sure if the answer is right either

but

Please help me.

ahnowbrowncow

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

I can see a relationship between the 2 sets of the top numbers.
4 (×3+2)=14, 11(×3+2)=35

Lost after that.

NiallSparky wrote: »

04___14______11___35

35___26______73___??

Abs(4-14) + Abs(-14-11) = 35
Abs(35-26) + Abs(26-73) = 55

Closest I could get. Still cheated by changing the sign, but it may help someone else.

Where is everyone getting the 35 in the top set from? You are confusing me :pac:

Amirani

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

Where is everyone getting the 35 in the top set from? You are confusing me :pac:

I read post 11. Didn't specify which line it was.

The barber of chewbacca

lm01 wrote: »

Someone sent me an email of puzzles today, and I've finished them all and got most of them right, but there is one I cannot for the life of me figure out.

It's like this:


04___14______11___34

35___26______73___??


I've been told the answer is 55, but I still can't even work out what the relationships between the numbers are now that I know! I've been working away at this all day, and I still can't come up with anything. Can anyone explain it so that I can go to sleep in peace? This thing has my head demented.

I get 58... Compare column 1 to 3 and 2 to 4. Subtract top linr from bottom.

Compare col. 1 to 3.
35-4=31; 73-11=62.

Diff btwn column 3 & column 1 is 2x.

Therefore:

Compare column two to column 4

26-14=12; x-34=24... X =58.

ahnowbrowncow

NiallSparky wrote: »

I read post 11. Didn't specify which line it was.

Ah ok, I didn't even see post 11

lm01

Screenshot of the original problem:



Was told the answer is D. Any more than that, I don't know.

osarusan

NiallSparky wrote: »

I read post 11. Didn't specify which line it was.

The edit to the OP is:

I TYPOED THE FIFTH NUMBER IN MY EXHAUSTION

so I think it should look like this:

04 14 11 34

35 26 73 ??

MonaPizza

lm01 wrote: »

Someone sent me an email of puzzles today, and I've finished them all and got most of them right, but there is one I cannot for the life of me figure out.

It's like this:


04___14______11___34

35___26______73___??


I've been told the answer is 55, but I still can't even work out what the relationships between the numbers are now that I know! I've been working away at this all day, and I still can't come up with anything. Can anyone explain it so that I can go to sleep in peace? This thing has my head demented.

Do the wider gaps between the middle 2 numbers mean anything or is that just your typing?

wonderfullife

ok how about this:

04___14______11___34
+ + +
35___26______73___??

=
39 40 84 85


85-34 = 51.

It's not 55 but hey maybe the ass who told you the answer is an ass and incorrect

diomed

4 14 11 35 (4 X 2) + 3 = 11 (14 X 2) + 3 = 31
35 26 73 55 (35 X 2) + 3 = 73 (26 X 2) + 3 = 55

Multiply the
4; 14
35; 26
by 2, then add 3

to get the
11; 35
73; 55

Should the last number on the top line be 31?

Jaggy

Just found this as diomed replied.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091029083140AAoHkNr

ringadingding

It doesn't say much for me that I'm even more confused having been given the answer and method does it ?

lm01

diomed wrote: »

4 14 11 35 (4 X 2) + 3 = 11 (14 X 2) + 3 = 31
35 26 73 55 (35 X 2) + 3 = 73 (26 X 2) + 3 = 55
Multiply the
4; 14
35; 26
by 2, then add 3

to get the
11; 35
73; 55

Should the last number on the top line be 31?

I'm guessing now it should be, but that's not how the question was presented to me! Entirely possible my mate edited the question with a bogus number just to drive me up the wall. Don't feel so bad about struggling with it now!

Best I could come up with given the numbers as presented was 58.

First line:
4(2)(+3) = 11
14(2)(+6) = 34

Second line:
35(2)(+3) = 73
26(2)(+6) = 58

There was no 58. The only options were 51, 56, 45, 55, and 52. Thanks for the help, though.

nice_very

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WilyCoyote

I got it I got it I got it
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Three fiddy. YEAH!

Totofan99

Right, I haven't spent long on this. It's hardly this easy, is it?

04 14 11 34
35 26 73 ??

Looking at the bottom line only: 35: 3+5=8
26: 2+6=8

73: 7+3=10
??: ?+?=10

The only number in the possible answers where the digits add up to 10 is 55. So the answer is 55!

But that's totally ignoring the top row. I don't think this is correct. I'm going to spend a bit longer on it.

M.T. Cranium

Assuming that the numbers have been typed in wrong and should read

04___14______11___31

35___26______73___??

The answer 55 is explained as follows:

4 + 31 = 35
14 + 12 = 26

then 11+ (2x31) = 73
so 31 + (2x12) = 55

asteroth

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Assuming that the numbers have been typed in wrong and should read

04___14______11___31

35___26______73___??

The answer 55 is explained as follows:

4 + 31 = 35
14 + 12 = 26

then 11+ (2x31) = 73
so 31 + (2x12) = 55

What kind of random friggin crap is that?