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Follow the instructions carefully, ONE LINE AT A TIME. Be sure to do exactly what it says before moving to the next instruction. You can keep track of your answers by typing them into the white spaces provided beside each instruction. Sharpen your pencils -- some of this math cannot be done in your head probably! To clear the boxes, backspace over the last answer. Reloading will NOT clear the blocks.
Here is a math trick you can play on your friends to show them what a math whiz you are! Tell a friend that the two of you will pick five 5-digit numbers at random, and then will add them together -- but, amazingly, after just hearing the first number and before the others have even been selected, you'll be able to accurately predict what the TOTAL of those five numbers will be!
Steps:
1) Pick a number from 5 to 9 | |
2) Subtract 5 | |
3) Multiply by 3 | |
4) Square the number (multiply it by itself) | |
5) Add the digits in the number together until you get only one digit; i.e. 64: 6 + 4 = 10; 1 + 0= 1 | |
6) If the number is less than 5, add five. Otherwise subtract 4. | |
7) Multiply it by 2 | |
8) Subtract 6 | |
9) Give the digit its corresponding letter in the alphabet (for example: 1=A, 2=B, 3=C, 4=D...26=Z, etc) | |
10) Pick a name of a country (NOT A STATE) that begins with that letter. | |
11) Take the second letter in the country name and think of a mammal that begins with that letter. | |
12) Think of the most common color of that mammal. | |
DO NOT LOOK AT THE ANSWER UNTIL YOU HAVE COMPLETED ALL OF THE ABOVE STEPS IN ORDER! |
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Some of the other creative answers we've received from our readers are: a black and white Echidna from Denmark (the Echidna is native to New Guinea and Australia); a brown elk From Denmark; and a brown joey (baby kangaroo) in Djibouti (Djibouti is a country created from the French Territory of the Afars and Issas, French Somaliland).
Ask the person to take his/her age and multiply it by 2. | |
Add 5. | |
Multiply this sum by 50. | |
Subtract 365. | |
Add the amount of loose pocket change, but do NOT count change totalling $1 or over (i.e., must be less than $1) | |
Add 115 -- final outcome: | |
Notice that the first two digits will be the person's age, and the last two digits are the amount of the person's pocket change. |
2 + 2 | |
4 + 4 | |
8 + 8 | |
16 + 16 | |
Pick a number between 12 and 5 | |
Final Outcome: |
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