double post
Sneaky bastages
So we all agreed it's 43 then. 5 + 19 x 2 =43.
SPOILER for anyone coming in late. Don't read on. Sorry to divulge now, but really I think the answer is obvious to anyone coming after with all the hints and input on how it should be done.
It went over my head, but now you mention Adams...good answer!
After being told how to do it, yes.
Yep, from way back when, the acronym was BOMDAS: Brackets, Order, Multi, Divi, Addi, Subtraction, or PEMDAS (Parentheses, Exponant...)
So I make it that Tax got it first, then Ray, Lu realised his earlier mistake and gets credit for that, then Nid and Nev. Answer: 5 + (19 x 2) = 43. The tricky bit (for some) was noticing the eskimo in the last equation was holding telescopes and wearing boots making him a symbol equating to 19.
It has been pointed out that the eskimo in the last equation may represent the boots, telescopes, and eskimo as all multiplied (the rationale being that the symbols are, mathematically, beside each other and are thus multiplied (x being redundant in some maths equations)), thus the answer is in the hundreds. I don't easily accept that because really they are all added together pictorially, but the argument remains.
Dill's edited all his posts to my troll answer.
jabir
why do you have 4 as the last number in the equation. there is only one telescope, so that last figure should be 2.Objection! As the eskimo's wearing boots and holding binos, without any symbol separating these components, they should be multiplied by default, not added, and the calc reads: 5 + ((5x10x4)x4) = 805.
therefore, calculating it your way .....
gives you 5+((5x4x10)x2)=405.
Typical tardiness, what's not clear is whether the numbers are rounded. Those of us who don't work in the theoretical space like Manny need more precision - until that is answered I withdraw by three correct answers, answer.
I acknowledged there is that argument.
I'm not a proponant of it though. My reasoning is the puzzle is a pictorial, visual puzzle more than a mathematics one and therefore the eskimo with the two telescopes and wearing boots is an aggregation of the symbols for number, ie all those symbols added together.
But no biggie.
I think the two "tricks" in the puzzle were to fool those that don't know BOMDAS (like Lu and Buriram...and to be fair they learnt from it and now do know), and the less observant that didn't notice the last eskimo had on boots and was carrying telescopes (like many). Some people even missed the "x" and took it as a "+".
I don't have an "official" answer, just my own which is 43.
If we were to take this a bit more seriously, it is clear that the man on the bottom row with the two telescopes is actually stealing those telescopes, so we should have a minus figure for the telescopes (-2 telescopes = - 4).
Furthermore, there is no proof that that same man is wearing socks like the other men in the pictures. In such a case, 10% should be deducted from the value of that man as he is obviously of less value with no socks. The boots are also stolen so minus 5 for them.
Also, one shoe or boot is pretty fucking useless by itself. The value for the single boot should therefore be zero.
Taking all that into consideration, we now have the following ...
0 + ((4.5 - 4 - 5) x 2) = - 9
Last edited by Neverna; 15-02-2019 at 08:12 PM.
It is not a good puzzle. The problem is there is no set rule for a composite. Image plus image equals what? Add them, divide them, multiply them, subtract them, put them in numerical order? Who knows.
60 as he said ^
5 + (5 x 2) = 15
Although a pair of boots are worth 10, one on its own is worth zilch. That is not a telescope but a pair of binoculars and half a pair is just as useless as a single boot. This means we have:
0 + (whatever) X 0 = 0
43 for one-eyed, single legged pirates.
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