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Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by GodIsBiafran: 2:59pm On May 02, 2017 |
AkinPhysicist: One word: EPIC! This is a man who knows what he is talking about! ![]() 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by StarBukola(f): 3:00pm On May 02, 2017 |
naturalwaves:ohh for me?? I don't knw what to say |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by GodIsBiafran: 3:01pm On May 02, 2017 |
peacettw: Madam I find your research interesting - we should talk sometime. Are you Igbo? ![]() |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by yorex2011: 3:02pm On May 02, 2017 |
Lets learn some cleverness If they are all chickens we'd have 56 legs If they were all rabbits we'd have 112 legs In between in 84, which means equal number of rabbits and chickens 84 legs.. 14 each, .. But that is 4 more legs than needed.. So we need to reduce the rabbits and add more chickens for each reduction in rabbits yoh have reduction of legs by two, so we just gats reduce the rabbits by two so we make up 80 and add up that two to the chickens So 14, 14 = 84 legs (more legs means the rabbits need to be reduced) 16, 12 = 80 sometimes its just fun manipulating numbers.. The problem is that our educational system doesn't teach us to find out our own ways... That is the beginning of creativity . I remember how good i felt when i was in primary 6 and discovered that the squares of numbers followed a consecutive odd number sequence Starting from 0 an continuos addition of odd numbers continue giving perfect squares... So this way you can find the perfect square of a number if you know the perfect square of another number close to it 1 plus 3 plus 5 plus 7 plus 9 plus 11 plus 13..keep having perfect squares 1, 4, 9, 16,25,36,49 etc Tho later on in sec school i realized it was factorization, but that didn't stop me from feeling cool that this was something i found out myself years before it was taught officially 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by peacettw: 3:04pm On May 02, 2017 |
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Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by GodIsBiafran: 3:11pm On May 02, 2017 |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by peacettw: 3:13pm On May 02, 2017 |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by massive102: 3:23pm On May 02, 2017 |
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Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by GodIsBiafran: 3:25pm On May 02, 2017 |
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Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by naturalwaves: 3:38pm On May 02, 2017 |
AkinPhysicist:Why would you make an assumption when there is a legitimate way to go about it without assumption? What you did is not different from a child being asked to solve for X in 2+X=6 and then you start testing 1,2,3 etc to see which one will give 6. That is trial method and it is demeaning for someone of your calibre. Provide a suitable solution that is devoid of trial and error. |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by naturalwaves: 3:42pm On May 02, 2017 |
StarBukola:Yeah, sure! |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by Nobody: 3:46pm On May 02, 2017 |
akinphysicist and naturalwaves,you guy 've got pure intellect. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by CACAWA(m): 3:49pm On May 02, 2017 |
AkinPhysicist: FisifunKododada: Remember i first showed you an algebraic solution. In fact, the ITERATION did not need a calculator...Remember i once asked you to tell me the square root of 74 without a calculator which you guys are yet to reply. The only reason I have e used a calculator for you is so that you can. Appreciate how much detail is needed if you insist on doing the "counting" method for very difficult question where the number 15 was replaced with 858.6 While you guys are still focused on the immediate problem, I'm showing you the mathematically accepted general approach to all other related but complex questions of this kind. |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by CACAWA(m): 3:53pm On May 02, 2017 |
inschool:exactly. That's what made me challenge him.. |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by Horllamideh(m): 4:07pm On May 02, 2017 |
AkinPhysicist:for real?? Ngbo yungmillionaire, a nilo attention yin nibi bayi |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by DanseMacabre(m): 4:10pm On May 02, 2017 |
peacettw: I saw what you did there. Nice pun. |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by Bnladan(m): 4:12pm On May 02, 2017 |
There are 15 chickens and 12 rabbits. No of legs of chicken is 15x2=30, No. of legs of rabbits is 12x4=48, No. of legs of the farmer is 2. Total No. Is 48+30+2=80. No. of heads of chickens is 15, that of rabbits is 12 and a head for the farmer making it 28. I guess I'm correct |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by naturalwaves: 4:19pm On May 02, 2017 |
skillful01:Thank you bro. Since Akinphysicist has decided to dance in circles and not provide a suitable solution to the question nor provide an alternative method that is more acceptable, let me solve it through a way that is devoid of wuruwuru and trial by error like he did for the benefits of secondary school students and others viewing the thread. See solution attached below. cc:cacawa 2 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by AkinPhysicist: 4:36pm On May 02, 2017 |
naturalwaves:Because its a fun out of the box kind of way of doing it naturalwaves:Good. Children can teach you are lot about imagination and creativity. Be a child once in a while and you will see things differently. naturalwaves: So? - as long as the child knows the answer has to be positive definite so he starts from zero instead of negative infinity. This child has learn far more mathematics than the people subtracting 2 from both sides to see what happens. Whatever its worth the child probably knows the subtraction method too. ![]() naturalwaves:It would be trial and error if I didn't know where to start and were to stop. See my post above about the creative child who knows where to start counting from. That is the key. There are quite a few advanced mathematics techniques that employ spanning a limited space to find element or elements that fulfill a particular restraint. This is what I did here. If you are wise you will learn. ![]() naturalwaves: If you truly believe I cannot solve this problem in the normal (school textbook way) then why are you engaging me in this conversation? ![]() |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by AkinPhysicist: 4:39pm On May 02, 2017 |
Horllamideh: Shekiri ni yungmill ko gbo yooba dada - PM eh. |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by AkinPhysicist: 4:41pm On May 02, 2017 |
naturalwaves: Clap 4 yourself. Using my 'wuru wuru' method: No pen and paper needed. And it took me less than a minute. Try it. Its good for your brain. ![]() By the way - we already hashed this out yesterday. Keep up. See this: AkinPhysicist: |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by GodIsBiafran: 4:45pm On May 02, 2017 |
skillful01: akinphysicist - yes but am not sure of the naturalwaves guy. He has not been fully vetted yet. Right now he is just making noise up and down. |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by GodIsBiafran: 4:47pm On May 02, 2017 |
naturalwaves: Another boring rigid predictable textbook solution. Show some creativity. Illuminate our minds. You people are missing the whole put of undiluted pure intellect. |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by YungMillionaire: 4:55pm On May 02, 2017 |
Horllamideh: just pm me - I understand Yoruba small but I can't write it to save my own life. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by naturalwaves: 4:57pm On May 02, 2017 |
AkinPhysicist:You are very funny. You just have a way of evading things even though you know what I was talking about. Your evasive techniques shows how intelligent you are. Moreover, why would I think that you won't be able to solve the question? Like I said, it is for the benefit of others watching as well. No hard feelings and stop dribbling up and down joor. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by YungMillionaire: 4:58pm On May 02, 2017 |
Even though this beautiful thread has been hijacked by rigid text-book oriented 'mathematicians' I am at least glad that people are using their brain to think and share insightful ideas on Nairaland. Shout out to all the people who are making this thread lively. Akin of course. Cacawa; naturewaves; GodisBiafran; et. al. We might not agree on everything but at least we are thinking. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by naturalwaves: 5:00pm On May 02, 2017 |
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Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by naturalwaves: 5:06pm On May 02, 2017 |
AkinPhysicist:The ideal thing is to first of all use the wuru wuru method now before setting out to solve so that one will have an idea of what the answer should look like. It is a smart way of reasoning. However, you are failing to get my points. Sometimes, the answer set may span a larger loop and because of that we need to set out standard ways of resolving such questions for the sake of other people watching( same thing cacawa was trying to communicate to you). You be chairman now. Who would doubt your ability of being able to solve such question. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by yorex2011: 5:14pm On May 02, 2017 |
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Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by naturalwaves: 5:19pm On May 02, 2017 |
yorex2011:Weldone bro. I guess this is the kind of intelligence akinaphysicist, Godisbiafran and yungmillionaire meant ![]() |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by dingbang(m): 5:20pm On May 02, 2017 |
yorex2011:just look at u.. See when u are coming.. I mentioned ur moniker since and even sent a message on ur bbm.. Sha are ur numbers going? |
Re: Nairalander Offers 10 Thousand Naira For Anyone Who Solves This Logical Riddle by yorex2011: 5:23pm On May 02, 2017 |
dingbang:Don't mind me jor.. Been in the occupied with some real awesome stuff lately ![]() My BBM wey don nearly cast lol... I go msg you now sha |
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