Your Age
YOUR AGE BY DINER & RESTAURANT MATH
This is pretty neat.
DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
It takes less than a minute .
Work this out as you read ...
Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to go out to eat.
(more than once but less than 10)
2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)
3. Add 5
4. Multiply it by 50
5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1757 ....
If you haven't, add 1756.
6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.
You should have a three digit number
The first digit of this was your original number
(i.e. how many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week.)
The next two numbers are
YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)
THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2007) IT WILL EVER WORK
26 comments:
I love these math problems. I don't understand them, or how they work, but I do love them. Take a number; multiply it by another number of you’re choosing and then subtract your iq and the answer is, "You have blue eyes." How does that work?
I wanted to thank you for coming to my blog everyday and am here to return the compliment. I've enjoyed it and will be back!
I'm not good at maths as I ended up being 14!!
Now that's just weird. ;-)
Correct! Nice one. xx
coffeypot - lol amazing what a few numbers can tell about you!
Christian - now i know you are 14 it makes sense LOL, just kidding, i am very curious to read all about your adventurew.
jay - it sure is and just who thinks of these ideas and how does it work?
It sure does work!
john.g - weird huh
beccy - very, very strange, someone is going to tell us how it works, and i am pinning my hopes on a Russian traveller!
HOLY CRAP!!!
Now I'm gonna have nightmares.
That is CRAZY! I'll be showing that to all my family - they will love that! Thanks - see ya.
THAT was weird. It almost worked on me, but my age came out as 38, and I am NOt that old..am I?
that's amazing it worked!
EEEEEEEEEEK!
I can never remember how old I am. Now I have a way to work it out, thanks... ;)
Wow!!
'kinell!!! Good stuff!
I'm so bad at math I screwed this problem up the first time and wound up being 86. I got it right the second time though. ;)
YOU ARE THE DEVIL!!!!!
jas - you will if you go and see the film that Biddie has seen!
kellan - go get them girl
biddie - lol, you not as old as corky was when he did it first time!
chrisb - spooky huh
pamela - exactly my thoughts too!
tod - no me neither so i now just stay the same age year in year out!
casdok - its great, weird but good.
dinners - bet i know how old you will be next year!
corky - you sure look great for your age lol
cappy - no you mean 'she's the devil woman with evil in her eyes' by our Sir Cliff of course!
I can't do math...*pout*
Step 1: pick the number of times you eat out per week and it must be between 1 and 10. This means the number has to be a single digit. Let us denote this digit by N.
Step 2: We are told to double the number. Thus, we have 2 * N.
Step 3: Add 5. We have (2*N)+5
Step 4: Multiply by 50. We have 50*((2*N)+5)= (100*N)+250
Step 5: Add 1757 if you already had your birthday this year - otherwise, add 1756.
This gives either (100*N)+2007 or (100*N)+2006
Here, we are multiplying N by 100 and adding the year you last had your birthday (either this year or last year).
Step 6: subtract you 4 digit year of birth.
The result is N and our age. By subtracting your year of birth from either 2007 or 2006, you get your current age.
Imagine your two digit age as XX. When we add your age to N*100, we will get N00 + XX = NXX.
Your returned Russian Traveller!
:-)
hi Russia - i seem to recal something like this appearing on a blog and you worked it out, how good are you? glad you are back safe and sound
Kahless....we must be fraternal twins as you are clearly a math prodigy!
I love these even when I CAN understand how they work! Good show!
Hi DJ; I am not a prodigy (my IQ is less than yours) but I do have a maths degree.
hilarious!!
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