Question:
Okay, I will try and make this so that you have to scroll waaaaaaaay down to find answer! No cheating!!! :p It won't be any fun then!
1.) Choose a number from 1 to 9
2.) Take the number you have chosen and multiply it by 9
3.)Add together the digits of your answer to form another answer
*example 2x9=18 then 1+8=9*
4.)Take your new answer and subtract 5 from it
How are you doing so far? Seems a little redundant doesn't it? :D
Okay now you have yet another new number.
Take this number and assign a letter of the alphabet to it. For example, 1=A, 2=B....you get the idea!
Now, think of a country that begins with the letter you have selected.
What is the second letter in the spelling of that country? Think of an animal that starts with that letter.
Now, what color is that animal??????
Okay, I have kept you in suspense long enough.
There are No Gray Elephants in Denmark!!!!!
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Who said Elephants
I say Emu!!
LOL
Karen is :confused:
Emu is a bird not an animal!!!!!!!! :D
haha ive done this before... but its still cool! lol
im so confused :confused: im must have tried this about 5 times today and im still confused :confused: . but that's me. it was neat. thank you for sharing it
have a good night
richard :D
I got a brown caribou in ecuador... do I win a prize?
yep, grand prize---eleventy million $
I CAME UP WITH A RAT IN ARGENTINA! LMAO! :p
Eeeerrrr ... black jaguar in Djibouti?? :p
You got me, I started with 7 and ended with the grey elephant.....
Solution
Let x be the original number.
After step 4, you have 32( w - 5)2.
Since you were limited to picking a number from 1 to 9, by substituting these into the above expression, we see that your answer so far will either be 9, 36 , 81 or 144*, each of which will yield an answer of 9 after the fifth step.
So, no matter what your original number was, you will end up with 9 after step 5 and the letter D after step 9.
There are five countries that begin with the letter D. But after a minute of mental arithmetic, most people will not think of Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic or Dutch Guiana.
Similarly, for a mammal, most people will not immediately think of echidna, edentate, eland, elk, ermine, elkhand or of an elephant seal for that matter.
* More generally, let x, y and z... be the digits of the result of 32( w - 5)2.
Then 32( w - 5)2 = z + 10y + 100x
But we are just adding the digits as if they were ones ; so imagine that 99x and 9y have been subtracted from both sides:
x + y + z = 32( w - 5)2 - 99x - 9y
or x + y + z = 9[ ( w - 5)2 - 11x - 1y ]
so clearly the sum of the digits is a multiple of nine.
For example, if w = 101,
32(101-5)2 = 82944
8+2+9+4+4 = 27, a multiple of 9.
THAT IS WHAT YOU CALL CONFUSING THE QUESTION! :confused:
Khorath, did you think too much into it? Of course that is how it works. It is not the math that is the question, it is the probability of the answer in the gray elephant in denmark. dIt was a question from my psychology class in regards to psychic phenomenon not being so mystical. ( I myself diasgree with that, however :o )
Or, were you being a jerk on purpose?
Green Iguana in Finland.
1.) Choose a number from 1 to 9
2.) Take the number you have chosen and multiply it by 9
3.)Add together the digits of your answer to form another answer
*example 2x9=18 then 1+8=9*
4.)Take your new answer and subtract 5 from it
How are you doing so far? Seems a little redundant doesn't it? :D
Okay now you have yet another new number.
Take this number and assign a letter of the alphabet to it. For example, 1=A, 2=B....you get the idea!
Now, think of a country that begins with the letter you have selected.
What is the second letter in the spelling of that country? Think of an animal that starts with that letter.
Now, what color is that animal??????
Okay, I have kept you in suspense long enough.
There are No Gray Elephants in Denmark!!!!!
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
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Who said Elephants
I say Emu!!
LOL
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Karen is :confused:
Emu is a bird not an animal!!!!!!!! :D
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haha ive done this before... but its still cool! lol
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im so confused :confused: im must have tried this about 5 times today and im still confused :confused: . but that's me. it was neat. thank you for sharing it
have a good night
richard :D
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I got a brown caribou in ecuador... do I win a prize?
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yep, grand prize---eleventy million $
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I CAME UP WITH A RAT IN ARGENTINA! LMAO! :p
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Eeeerrrr ... black jaguar in Djibouti?? :p
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You got me, I started with 7 and ended with the grey elephant.....
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Solution
Let x be the original number.
After step 4, you have 32( w - 5)2.
Since you were limited to picking a number from 1 to 9, by substituting these into the above expression, we see that your answer so far will either be 9, 36 , 81 or 144*, each of which will yield an answer of 9 after the fifth step.
So, no matter what your original number was, you will end up with 9 after step 5 and the letter D after step 9.
There are five countries that begin with the letter D. But after a minute of mental arithmetic, most people will not think of Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic or Dutch Guiana.
Similarly, for a mammal, most people will not immediately think of echidna, edentate, eland, elk, ermine, elkhand or of an elephant seal for that matter.
* More generally, let x, y and z... be the digits of the result of 32( w - 5)2.
Then 32( w - 5)2 = z + 10y + 100x
But we are just adding the digits as if they were ones ; so imagine that 99x and 9y have been subtracted from both sides:
x + y + z = 32( w - 5)2 - 99x - 9y
or x + y + z = 9[ ( w - 5)2 - 11x - 1y ]
so clearly the sum of the digits is a multiple of nine.
For example, if w = 101,
32(101-5)2 = 82944
8+2+9+4+4 = 27, a multiple of 9.
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THAT IS WHAT YOU CALL CONFUSING THE QUESTION! :confused:
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Khorath, did you think too much into it? Of course that is how it works. It is not the math that is the question, it is the probability of the answer in the gray elephant in denmark. dIt was a question from my psychology class in regards to psychic phenomenon not being so mystical. ( I myself diasgree with that, however :o )
Or, were you being a jerk on purpose?
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Green Iguana in Finland.
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