Maths Question

[RupertTheFridge]

I've seen large numbers of Social Media math questions you know the ones, if a bottle = 15, a star = 10 & Jesus=50, how much does an Angel cost.


Well I've just seen this one & it's actually got me interested, but it's beyond my intellect.


Any help?

[Thales]

73.

[Deranged Rover]

The answer is

[littleredrooster]

Thales said:

73.

Really?

It can't be evaluated - it's missing a vital bit of information in the second line - no mention of the Santa Clause...

[RazerSauber]

Does the size of pudding matter?

I assume the first part of the 3rd line with the tree over the presents is a fraction?

If it is, then I can conclude with 100% accuracy that my answer is: Wrong.

[Mr Pointy]

All of these types of puzzle are nonsense because the information is incomplete. In your example is four presents in a square equal to four times on present or is it a completely separate value? They often show something like the value for one banana & then a picture of two bananas but you don't know if that's a completely different value or of it's twice the value of one banana.

It's just clickbait.

[Alucidnation]

I’ve worked it out at 82.74

[Yuxi]

It's calculus, differentiate the parcel and the tree, that's all I can remember from O level maths

[james_TW]

42

[silverfoxcc]

james_TW said:

42

me as well

[TommyBuoy]

Yuxi said:

It's calculus, differentiate the parcel and the tree, that's all I can remember from O level maths

What Yuxi said, deal with the differential equation at the bottom first.

I'd have to go back and revise to work that out....and I'm not going to

For anyone who wants to, the elongated E means that the item is an element or in the set of the second.

Z means integer

Best of luck!

Edited by TommyBuoy on Tuesday 17th December 15:42

[JuniorD]

[BlackTails]

7,649,147.92. (or 11/12ths)

It's a straightforward but messy intergral, with a lot of prime numbers that don't cancel once you get past the integration.

[sxmwht]

BlackTails said:

7,649,147.92. (or 11/12ths)

It's a straightforward but messy intergral, with a lot of prime numbers that don't cancel once you get past the integration.

Yep. A tree is 7, a present is 12. The integral is horrible.

[Krikkit]

Unless I'm missing something, I reckon the answer is that the present = 12, tree = 7 (the lines specify they must be integers)

Giving the integral as:

[TommyBuoy]

sxmwht said:

BlackTails said:

7,649,147.92. (or 11/12ths)

It's a straightforward but messy intergral, with a lot of prime numbers that don't cancel once you get past the integration.

Yep. A tree is 7, a present is 12. The integral is horrible.

Went back to remind myself of definite integration. Amazing how much you forget when you don't use it.

[BlackTails]

Krikkit said:

Unless I'm missing something, I reckon the answer is that the present = 12, tree = 7 (the lines specify they must be integers)

Giving the integral as:

Ha! A computer will do that for you now? Well I never.

I did it the old fashioned way, with a pen, on a side of A4. Primes galore!

[Mr-B]

According to Diane Abbotpotomus it's 42 or 7 trillion or somewhere between the two. HTH.

[Krikkit]

BlackTails said:

Ha! A computer will do that for you now? Well I never.

I did it the old fashioned way, with a pen, on a side of A4. Primes galore!

Indeed it will! I'd done most of it on paper before I remembered it existed, saves taking a picture of some horrid spider-scrawl notes.

It's very clever though - just type an equation and it recognises whatever format you're using and just runs with it.

[RupertTheFridge]

Thanks everyone, my brain is fully fried