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tailwindhometailwindhome Posts: 18,244
edited July 2019 in The cake stop
There's an interesting 'thing' going round on twitter

27 plus 48 is 75

But what's your thought process to get to the answer

Post your answer below (before you read everyone else's)

It's interesting how people process this differently
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  • tailwindhometailwindhome Posts: 18,244
    For me it's
    40+20 = 60
    7+8 = 15
    60+15 = 75
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  • daniel_bdaniel_b Posts: 10,832
    48 + 20 = 68
    68 + 7 = 75
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  • shirley_bassoshirley_basso Posts: 5,703
    40+20 = 60
    7+8 = 15
    60+15 = 75
  • ProssPross Posts: 35,452
    TailWindHome wrote:
    For me it's
    40+20 = 60
    7+8 = 15
    60+15 = 75

    This originally but it may have been because I saw your answer before thinking about it. I went back to it and did 27 + 50 then took off 2.
  • lesfirthlesfirth Posts: 1,363
    Daniel B wrote:
    48 + 20 = 68
    68 + 7 = 75

    Simple
  • pblakeneypblakeney Posts: 22,354
    TailWindHome wrote:
    For me it's
    40+20 = 60
    7+8 = 15
    60+15 = 75
    Me too. Probably something to do with the way we were taught.
    I find the way these things are done by children these days strange. Different methods, but the same results.
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  • awaveyawavey Posts: 2,368
    48 + 2 = 50
    27-2 =25

    25+50 = 75...

    or am I missing something obvious here
  • tailwindhometailwindhome Posts: 18,244
    awavey wrote:
    or am I missing something obvious here

    There's no trick and nothing you're missing.
    It's just interesting that people have different thought processes to get the same answer.
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  • briantrumpetbriantrumpet Posts: 13,932
    Which buttons to press on the calculator.

    Well, no. Did anyone else learn to use those 'calculating machines' where you turned a handle round numbers of times for multiplication? In a maths lesson, before we were allowed to have the fun of using them, we had to do mental calculation to get ballpark figures, because of the risk of jiggling the thing along too far and getting out by factors of something.

    Anyway, O-levels done without calculators, but with log tables and slide rules (modern school children don't know what these are).

    And the answer to the question... not quite sure, TBH - I think a sort of mixture, dumping the smaller number on top of the bigger one. Calculating VAT at 17.5% in one's head was always fun.
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  • rjsterryrjsterry Posts: 24,657
    edited June 2019
    As you posted the answer up, I'm not entirely sure how I would have done it, but I think I would have thought as follows.

    Seven and eight is fifteen, carry the ten; two and four is six and one is seven: seventy-five.

    Be interesting to try it with two three-digit numbers.
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  • awaveyawavey Posts: 2,368
    TailWindHome wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    or am I missing something obvious here

    There's no trick and nothing you're missing.
    It's just interesting that people have different thought processes to get the same answer.

    some have very complicated thought processes by the looks of it :lol:
  • pblakeneypblakeney Posts: 22,354
    awavey wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    or am I missing something obvious here

    There's no trick and nothing you're missing.
    It's just interesting that people have different thought processes to get the same answer.

    some have very complicated thought processes by the looks of it :lol:
    Thing is, everyone thinks their process is the simplest...
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  • Ben6899Ben6899 Posts: 9,680
    This is interesting. I just thought "75" and not sure how I got there!

    If I had to help someone figure it out I would probably tell them to work out 30+48 and then knock off the three difference between 27 and 30. Or similar with 27+50...
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  • tailwindhometailwindhome Posts: 18,244
    rjsterry wrote:
    As you posted the answer up

    Yeah. I gave the answer as I wanted it to be clear it wasn't a 'trick question' but should have left that out as it maybe skews your natural thought process.
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  • ProssPross Posts: 35,452
    Ben6899 wrote:
    This is interesting. I just thought "75" and not sure how I got there!

    If I had to help someone figure it out I would probably tell them to work out 30+48 and then knock off the three difference between 27 and 30. Or similar with 27+50...

    Must be a Civil Engineer thing as I did similar but added on 50 and took off 2.
  • DeVlaeminckDeVlaeminck Posts: 8,350
    50 plus 27 minus 2
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  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 66,270 Lives Here
    48 is two under 50 and 27 is two over 15 so cancel each other out - 25+50.

    Weird i know. I tend to see the differences between round numbers.
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  • craigus89craigus89 Posts: 887
    I did...

    7+48 = 55
    55+20 =75

    Not sure why but I always seem to do things that way, get the smaller number to a round and then the rest is easy.
  • Ben6899Ben6899 Posts: 9,680
    Pross wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    This is interesting. I just thought "75" and not sure how I got there!

    If I had to help someone figure it out I would probably tell them to work out 30+48 and then knock off the three difference between 27 and 30. Or similar with 27+50...

    Must be a Civil Engineer thing as I did similar but added on 50 and took off 2.

    Must be! :)
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  • rjsterryrjsterry Posts: 24,657
    Ben6899 wrote:
    This is interesting. I just thought "75" and not sure how I got there!

    If I had to help someone figure it out I would probably tell them to work out 30+48 and then knock off the three difference between 27 and 30. Or similar with 27+50...

    My two primary school age children have been taught "number bonds" - memorising pairs of numbers that sum to each of the integers from 2 to 20, in much the same way as times tables. Possibly you have memorised that 27 + 48 = 75 through repetition, without realising it.
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  • Ben6899Ben6899 Posts: 9,680
    rjsterry wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    This is interesting. I just thought "75" and not sure how I got there!

    If I had to help someone figure it out I would probably tell them to work out 30+48 and then knock off the three difference between 27 and 30. Or similar with 27+50...

    My two primary school age children have been taught "number bonds" - memorising pairs of numbers that sum to each of the integers from 2 to 20, in much the same way as times tables. Possibly you have memorised that 27 + 48 = 75 through repetition, without realising it.

    It's highly likely. I can't remember to buy milk, but remember various numbers without any issue.
    Ben

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  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 66,270 Lives Here
    rjsterry wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    This is interesting. I just thought "75" and not sure how I got there!

    If I had to help someone figure it out I would probably tell them to work out 30+48 and then knock off the three difference between 27 and 30. Or similar with 27+50...

    My two primary school age children have been taught "number bonds" - memorising pairs of numbers that sum to each of the integers from 2 to 20, in much the same way as times tables. Possibly you have memorised that 27 + 48 = 75 through repetition, without realising it.

    This is certainly how I see it.

    I end up half visualising them as shapes that tessellate. 2s match with 8s, 7s with 3s etc.
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  • hopkinbhopkinb Posts: 7,129
    As per some of the first posters:

    20+40=60
    8+7=15
    60+15=75

    Columnar addition in my head I suppose.
  • Ben6899Ben6899 Posts: 9,680
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    This is interesting. I just thought "75" and not sure how I got there!

    If I had to help someone figure it out I would probably tell them to work out 30+48 and then knock off the three difference between 27 and 30. Or similar with 27+50...

    My two primary school age children have been taught "number bonds" - memorising pairs of numbers that sum to each of the integers from 2 to 20, in much the same way as times tables. Possibly you have memorised that 27 + 48 = 75 through repetition, without realising it.

    This is certainly how I see it.

    I end up half visualising them as shapes that tessellate. 2s match with 8s, 7s with 3s etc.

    This is the driver for how I said I would help someone figure it out. I certainly do this for larger numbers, but as rjsterry suggested... I work with numbers every day - down to mm and 3dp - so I think I simply memorise certain sums, subtractions and multiplications.

    Interesting thread, thanks to TWH for starting it off!
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  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 66,270 Lives Here
    Fast and slow thinking, innit.
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  • herb71herb71 Posts: 253
    I round up 48 to 50,

    50+27=77
    77-2 (the rounding difference).

    Not very elegant.
  • rjsterryrjsterry Posts: 24,657
    Ben6899 wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    This is interesting. I just thought "75" and not sure how I got there!

    If I had to help someone figure it out I would probably tell them to work out 30+48 and then knock off the three difference between 27 and 30. Or similar with 27+50...

    My two primary school age children have been taught "number bonds" - memorising pairs of numbers that sum to each of the integers from 2 to 20, in much the same way as times tables. Possibly you have memorised that 27 + 48 = 75 through repetition, without realising it.

    It's highly likely. I can't remember to buy milk, but remember various numbers without any issue.

    Repetition, innit. Darts players are very good at adding doubles and triples of 1-20, and subtracting these from 501.
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  • mfinmfin Posts: 6,726
    Ever so slightly different order.

    Upon looking immediately the first thing my brain sees the 7 and 8 and knows that's 15, the rest comes after that.

    7+8 =15
    40+20 = 60
    ...75

    But strangely, I looked at it and immediately thought 75 and all this that followed was just a double check.
  • pinnopinno Posts: 48,536
    48+22+5.
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  • robert88robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Found the biggest divisor of twenty added the remainders.
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