a number puzzley thing
Cleat Eastwood
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remember those think of a number things, heres one
1. The number of times you've been out on your bike between 1-10
2. Double it
3. Add 5
4. Multiply by 50
5. Add 1762
6. Minus the year of your birth.
the answer will give you the numbers of times you were out on the bike....and weirdly your age.
1. The number of times you've been out on your bike between 1-10
2. Double it
3. Add 5
4. Multiply by 50
5. Add 1762
6. Minus the year of your birth.
the answer will give you the numbers of times you were out on the bike....and weirdly your age.
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I've been out on my bike thousands of times. How does that fit in?
But WTF? after reading Dr Steve Peters "Chimp Paradox" book I really am trying to avoid exercises like this.
I teach Maths and still cant make this one work!!!!!!
Take x as the number of times you've been out on your bike.
1. x
2. 2x
3 2x + 5
4. 100x + 250
5. 100x + 2012
6. 100x + (2012 - yr of birth)
2012 (this year) less your year of birth will give your age.
100x is the number of times you've been out on your bike, in the 100 column, preceding your age.
Steps 2-5 are a fancy way of saying "Pick a number between 0 and 10, put it in the 100s column, and add 2012" to it. Step 6 is "cross out 2012 and write your age instead".
Doesn't work if you are > 100, because then the part in brackets at step 6 has to borrow from 100x, and that fecks the whole thing royally.
Bike 1
Bike 2-A
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
x=(2-3/5)+56
where
x=looking on Garmin.
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