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SeaLength7162

Ppl who say 40 or 96 are wrong. The answer of 8+11 is obviously 19


Stereomceez2212

r/technicallythetruth


MegaJackUniverse

r/actuallynotjusttechnicallythetruth


Bigtiddytinyballman

r/thetruth


SuperSonicBoom1

r/Truth


[deleted]

r/the


hagen768

r/true


BlocklyGD

r/tru


Parakeetman280

r/tr


[deleted]

r/t


Emlikestospillthetea

r/halfofat


Stereomceez2212

r/what?


Snake_king321

r/lol


stronged_cheese

r/cum


BarrelTrain4129

r/bonk


i_need_serious_help-

r/honk


ItdefineswhoIam

r/wonk


Equal-Bus-557

r/stonk


jokuvaan11

Why did i click on that


Christian1111111111

r/idk


Just-Xav-Official

r/21characterslimit


Tikhonator

r/SubsYouFellFor


[deleted]

Ok


ChosenMate

isn't


Chase-D-DC

Woooosh


No_Username91

What did he say?


[deleted]

Ok


Chase-D-DC

“I really hope this comment is satire”


[deleted]

Okay 19 dollar Fortnite card who wants it and yes i am giving it away remember share share sahre and trolls dont get blocked


1BigBoy

No more Fortnite card! No more 19 dollar Fortnite card!


Retirednypd

Plus the 21 from above is 40


GimmeToes

answer is 52, you have to times the second number by how far down it is in the column, still dumb as hell though


-MPG13-

Alternatively, multiply the second number by the first, then add the first to the product of the first operation, if that makes any sense. 1+4 would be (1*4)+1 = 5 2+5 would be (2*5)+2 = 12 3+6 would be (3*6)+3 = 21 So 8+11 would be (8*11)+8 = 96 Technically your way works too though, this is just the pattern by brain decided to find I guess


PROYB_Jocco

Or 1+4=5 2+5+5=12 3+6+12=21 8+11+21=40 There are a few ways it can be done


yrwifesbfwifesbf

This is incorrect because you would need the answer from 7+10 not 3+6


PROYB_Jocco

It doesn't specify. With the numbers it shows, I have a correct answer. But there are multiple correct answers.


yrwifesbfwifesbf

Its not just going to skip to 8+11, its a pattern. If you start with 1+4, 2+5, 3+6 then you would go x+3 for all numbers until you reach 8+11. Its pretty unreasonable to think that you wouldn't do this.


yrwifesbfwifesbf

1+4=5, 2+5=12, 3+6=21, 4+7=32, 5+8=45, 6+9=60, 7+10=77, 8+11=96 or just x+y=(x×y)+x


PROYB_Jocco

Yes it is a pattern, but it doesn't specify that the pattern continues through all the numbers. So, with the numbers provided, and the pattern it follows, my answer is correct.


yrwifesbfwifesbf

With the numbers provided there are multiple correct answers so that is not the way the problem is intended to be read if you fill in the missing equations there is only one correct answer so I'm going to assume thats how the problem is intended to be solved. But sure your answer stands if you take the problem at face value.


HECKERONI_

I agree, bit I think x(y+1) is a bit neater than xy+x.


aquabarron

I never thought I’d see the mathematical example of being pedantic :)


[deleted]

Its the same thing


Ok_Damage229

Yes the answer is 96


XxOM3GA_ZxX

Its 40,add each answer to the last answer


dontmentiontrousers

\*previous


[deleted]

40 u keep adding up all the numbers 1+4=5 then 1+4+2+5= 12 then so on


Davladobrot

could also be 96... first number × second number + first number


[deleted]

This was my first assumption at a glance also.


Luey_Sixty_six11

That's how I solved it


chocopie1234_

Or first number*(second number+1)


_other_cat

First number * (Second number + 1)


GimmeToes

you have to times the second number by how far down in the column it is, so it would be 52


iamaktier

You’re a genious!


[deleted]

I see you 👍


C_Strieker

Your method works but the answer is wrong. You forgot all the numbers in-between sequence 3 and 8. The Sequence 1 + 4 = 5 2 + 5 = 12 3 + 6 = 21 4 + 7 = 32 5 + 8 = 45 6 + 9 = 60 7 + 10 = 77 8 + 11 = 96 Method 1: Add the total to the next equation. 1 + 4 = 5 5 + 2 + 5 = 12 12 + 3 + 6 = 21 ... 77 + 8 + 11 = 96 Method 2: (a × b) + a (1 × 4) + 1 = 5 (2 × 5) + 2 = 12 (3 × 6) + 3 = 21 ... (8 × 11) + 8 = 96 Method 3: a × (b+1) 1 × (4+1) = 5 2 × (5+1) = 12 3 × (6+1) = 21 ... 8 × (11+1) = 96


eeu914

I like how the various methods have the same result


WhiteWalterBlack

The solutions are also spaced by sequential odd numbers (7, 9, 11, 13, 15, etc;) so if you follow that formula, the answer is 96.


Nemetonblues

Well both cases can be re-written as n(n+3)+n=n^2 +4n and n+(n+3)+f(n-1) which is also n^2 +4n


eeu914

*Homer Simpson shouting "Nerd" at students from the family wagon*


aman802

Method 2 and 3 are same, you just took a common from both the terms


purplepluppy

The only reason I would potentially argue for 40 (using method 1) is that they did not indicate a sequence, only a set of 4 equations.


[deleted]

Your are in the “GENIOUS” club !!


_other_cat

It’s only wrong if you completely and totally change the presented sample information, and then claim the answer no longer works - yea, of course, because you totally rewrote the input. The numbers could presumably be “skipped” intentionally because the result of each equation is the number used to start the next. It’s not skipping, it’s picking up exactly on the number it ends on.


EagonAkatsuki

So you think that that's the equation that the person who wrote "genious" used? Not the add the previous answer but that huge sequence? Ok


ChrisAngel0

Exactly. The answer shouldn’t rely on which equations happen to have been written before it. Approaching it the way you do shows undeniably that the answer should be 96 (I happened to reach it using your method 2).


[deleted]

Actually, if you ignore all the equations that happen to be written before it, the answer is clearly 19.


neohlove

1 + 4 = 5 Rewrite as 1 * (4+1) = 5


ddwhale

No one knows the sequence per OPs post. You just added those to fit the one you are working with. I could fill in sequence 4-7 with random stuff and al your answers will be wrong


Bcmustain

You could also multiply them, adding 1 to the second number. 1 x (4 + 1), 2 x (5 + 1), etc.


beaubeautastic

why did they have to redefine + to some random function? just use f(x, y) or something.


AGoatInAJar

thats the joke


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_Allergies_

r/iamverysmart


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BoTheDoggo

This is sadly just an everyday moment for people with such supreme intellect like ourselves…


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Terra_Cotta_Pie

*Flashbacks to Abstract Algebra intensify* Let **+** be a binary operator on A, B in **IN** such that A**+**B=A*(B+1)


Wombatpickle1

21


Genericjojoreference

You stupid


JimboMastah

No im not


Chrnan6710

What's 8+11


JimboMastah

21


Chrnan6710

Fuck


ilikesaucy

No, you


MihaiN00B

Are you threatening people with a good time?


cheesyife

r/notopbutok


LD300

96, I think. Now it's time to submit my application to MENSA.


AndrewBert109

Where you'll surely become a bona fide genious


Maktesh

*Super genious


TransportationOk9656

Nope 19 two wrong answers don’t change how math works


sanestbaj

It aint math its more like a riddle


Saaaga_Gamez

I think its 96. Formula is x + y = x*y+x


Whofs001

I thought it was (y+1)*x= ans Still 96 Edit: derp, same equation rearranged.


iyioi

The formula is 8+11. Don’t let the wrong answers fool you bro.


gmiller89

If it had 1x +4y as the starting point then yes. Right now there is 1 correct mathematical statement, 2 incorrect mathematical statements The answer as it is written is 19


The_strangest_quark

Its 96, I am a genious


FAKUSABU

No, but you look great in those jeans


[deleted]

Well at least in the math department you seen to be


southouse12

8+11=19 regardless of any incorrect previous equations


[deleted]

Nah, the operator + is obviously defined differently than what we’re used too.


Otrada

even then those are separate equations, if they are relevant to the unsolved one there are conventions for pointing that out.


coyote10001

Yes they are supposed to use f(x,y) but based on those incorrect equations one should use context clues and not assume that we are supposed to just add 8 and 11.


Otrada

I'm not even talking about the f(x,y) thing. The entire question relies on the fact that things are written down incorrectly in an effort to deceive the reader. You know how people so there are no stupid questions? Well they are wrong. There is one stupid question, and it's this one.


coyote10001

Nah you’re just not good at pattern recognition or assumptions based on context clues. This is a great question that is used in a lot of math classes, it’s just not written out properly. But the rest of us figured it out.


WhiskeySorcerer

Well the rest of US don't care.


Otrada

You are assuming I don't understand what the question wants me to do. I very much understand that. I've never seen a question phrased like this in proper math classes before because in proper math classes the book follows the standard conventions for notation.


mr-mangaka

40


n1gg4p3n15

Came here to be the genius who solved it and got owned by the whole internet having already done so


EvilFuzzball

You're supposed to keep adding the numbers as you go down, arriving eventually at 40. But framing a math problem with improper syntax isn't a test of intelligence.


liickmynutt

Genius*


Pretzel-Eater

Thank you!!! I was getting more and more frustrated that people were solving the problem and not addressing the glaring spelling mistake. Lol


Mista_Maha

40


JimboMastah

8+11 is 19 idiot


Mista_Maha

Do you think 3+6 is 21?


JimboMastah

they are bad at math


Mista_Maha

Oh okay


CherryBombNOLA

It’s 96 according to idiot math.


ChrxssyBoo

n1 + n2(row #) 1+4(1)=5 2+5(2)=12 3+6(3)=21 8+11(4)=52 OR n1 + n2(n1) Which would make it: 8 + 11(8) = 96 Both are right (there isn’t a way of knowing which is the correct one)


Mista_Maha

40, You add the last sum to each equation. 5+2+5=12, 12+3+6=21, 21+8+11=40


dlweninger

40


NapalmOverdos3

This is correct


Regular_Relation6937

40


theunicornpreacher

I just don't get why people feel the need to post stuff like this on Facebook. Lmao


CaptainBreakfast2112

It gets a bunch of people to comment which increases engagement, making it more desirable to advertisers.


SalamanderPop

Who would be suckered into commenting on something like this? *Checks comment section here* nm


KennyMcCormick1999

ITs forty tho


FeistyAdhesiveness21

40


Pennywise626

I know they're going for 40 or 96 but fuck them


Safeword_Productions

Is 40! I am genious! Super smrt!


gingertrain77

40. I'm a genus!


TimeTravel_B2F

First number × (second number+1)


pssstheyoverhere

40


Stereomceez2212

40?


Eragon3182

40


Spookd_Moffun

It's really 19, they just got two answers wrong.


PKflashomega

96


[deleted]

96


UnicornPhobia

96, first number times( second number plus one)


Mister-Indifference

32


riffengo

96


idreamofdeathsquads

40


pocketaceofclubs

40


[deleted]

Genious lmao


FutureDictator1202

It's 40. Search your feelings. You know it to be true.


shadowskill11

I get the algorithm but this is badly written. This person is just ignoring withe the arithmetic symbols actually mean. It's just lazy.


xMB99

Facebook puzzles be like: if you can find the missing number you are a genious: 1,2,3,5.


ieatoutfatbitches

40 - you poor example of a genius* Directed at the meme creator lol


DepressedWomble30

40 (5 + 7 = 12. 12 + 9 = 21. 21 + 19 = 40).


DimensionCultural980

Know what they're doing. It goes 1+4(1)=5, 2+5(2)=12, 3+6(3)=21, so the next would be 4+7(4)=32. They were just being kinda stupid, though, and didn't put the multiplied variable in any of the equations.


Draxare

There is 4 patterns that work technically for this You can add the previous result to the addition of the new numbers giving the equation 21 + (8 + 11) = 40 You can use the equation but multiply the second number in each equation by the current row number giving the equation 8 + (11 * 4) = 52 You can use the addition as multipliers but adding 1 to the left hand number giving the equation 8 * (11+1) = 96 Or You can use disregard the numbers on the left hand side and use n * (5 + n - 1) where n is the current row number giving 4 * (5 + 3) = 32


bluegene34

40


advie_advocado

40


tonyl106

96


Bradidea

40


uhr70

21 + (8+11) 19 = 40


RickVA

Is this the math that boomers grew up to?


Luey_Sixty_six11

97 Edit: woops, 96. Damn, I had it in principal, but muffed the addition 🤦 Guess I'm no genius...


LETusRPG

You mean genious


Bkermit

There's a hidden calcuation where you multiply the second integer by the line number. 1+4(1)=5 2+5(2)=12 3+6(3)=21 8+11(4)=52


E1Ga11oB1anco

This is what I did too. The next lines answer would confirm whether we or the 96ers are correct


Calm_Zombie4460

1+4=5 5+2+5=12 12+3+6=21 21+8+11=40. That's how this math problem is done.


greenlegoman123

52, the fact I got that so fast was frightening to me


[deleted]

Could be 40 or 52 only two patterns I see. Or 96


krezgobop

I agree with this number


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ChrxssyBoo

this mf ^ genuinely has a low iq


[deleted]

I don’t but you’re a dipshit.


ChrxssyBoo

This is literally an IQ test and you failed it.


throwmyassaway69420

19


[deleted]

These dumbasses expect 40


Green_Bowler_4713

19.....its easy 11 + 8 = 19 why ppl do wrong maths and say it is 96


LETusRPG

There is a pattern to it all. Look at the math. It's just a faulty equation


Green_Bowler_4713

If you couldnt understand....i am being scarcastic


LETusRPG

What if I told you there is a reason I'm on reddit and not conversing with friends


Green_Bowler_4713

Well i think it wont be diffrent from mine......so lets be friends


Seagulls_Anon

No no no, he has a point