I think of a number, triple it, and add 5. the answer i get is 14. What number did I think of?
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Let you thought of a number x.\n\nThen tripled number becomes = 3x\n\nAdding five to this makes it = 3x + 5.\n\nThen acc. to statement, 3x + 5 = 14\n\nor, 3x = 14 - 5 = 9\nor, x = 9/3 = 3.\n\nHence the answer is 3.
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I don't know what the question is but here's what I know:\n\nA=14\nB=996\nC=996
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You can put it as the last number, right after 2, because that would be the 13th number.\nOr it could be after the number 6. If you add all the numbers and divide by 13, you would get 6.
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The first number has to be (x+6) and the second number is (x).  There are four possible combinations: 6,0 (60); 7,1 (71); 8,2 (82); 9,3 (93).  60 plus 8 (68) does not equal 06, or 6.  71 plus 8 does not equal 17.  82 plus 8 does not equal 28.  93 plus 8 does not equal 39.\nUnfortunately, this problem is impossible.\nSorry I couldn't be of more help.
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There are many ways. For example to subtract 9 from 14 we add 1 to each number and then subtract. 15-10=5.\nAnother way is to add numbers to 9 till we get 14.\n9+1=10; 10+4=14; and the answer is 1+4=5.\n  Another way is to subtract more than the number to be subtracted and add the excess. Subtract 10 instead of 9 from 14 to get 4. Having subtracted 1 \nin excess we add 1 to 4 to get 5.
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add the numbers\n15\n19\n42\n19\nnext number equals 15.....     and each has a 2 and a 7 in it\n\ntry 2742 sounds like a good answer for neopets lenny conundrum answer possibility but not fully sure..... lucidlyinsane
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d=5, g=1\n\nFirst I found all the combinations of 3 numbers (no repeats and no fours) that added to 13 (17-4) for b+c+d. Then I found all the combinations of 3 numbers (no repeats and no fours that added to 17 for g+h+i. Then I figured out which of these pairs of numbers had digits that didn't overlap, and had a pair of digits (d & g) that added to 17 minus the digits that, between them, were still missing (e & f).\n\nAnd, I'm a gal. :)
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99.\n\n2-55 can be thought of a 2 and then a matching tens and ones place 3 digits higher.\n\n6-xx then, can be thought of as the x being 3 tens and 3 ones higher than 6, ant that' 6-99, making 99 the answer.
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use each number once and only once...\n\n2*3+4*5=26   \n\nThis is too easy.  Give us a hard one!\n...come on...?
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Is it twice the "same number + 3"\nor\ntwice the "same number", + 3?\n\nCase 1:\n5(x - 1) = 2(x + 3)\n5x - 5 = 2x + 6\n3x = 11\nx = 11/3\n\nCase 2:\n5(x - 1)  = 2x + 3\n5x - 5 = 2x + 3\n3x = 8\nx = 8/3\n\nThe phrasing can be interpreted either way, so the problem is ambiguous, but I would go with number 2, that seems more intuitive to me.
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I think of a number,\n\nX\n\nI multiply the number by 5 and minus 60,\n\n5X - 60\n\nI end up with the number I started with,\n\n5X - 60 = X\n\nSimplify,\n\n4X = 60\n\nX = 15\n\nThe number is 15. (QED)
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38 maybe\nHevans bless them, CAN NOT even ADD up the numbers correctly\n3+2+5+9+6+1+7+4+1 actually equals 38 and not 42 !!
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4, 5 (when reading the problem left to right, subtract 4 from the second number: 16, 17 (17-4=13); so 13 is your next number and add one to get 14; 14-4=10; so 10 is your next number, add 1 to get 11; 11-4=7; 7 is your next number add 8; 8-4=4; 4 is your next number then add one to get 5)
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The answer is 4100.  After adding the first 7 terms, you get a sum of  4090, then, adding another ten, your brain just automatically jumps to 5000.  Of course, if you added it on paper you would see that the answer is 4100, but doing mental math, your brain see differently.  \n\nI saw this in a logic book once, and another Yahoo Answers \n\nquestion.
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Both of the top 2 answers are correct depending on what you meant. If you meant the sum of 5 times EACH of the numbers then the first answer is correct. If you meant the smaller number added to 5 times the larger number then the second answer is correct.
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There are many combinations. One of them is 1,2,3,4,5,16. Is there some specific property you wanted these six numbers to have?
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Answer: 1\n\nThis is a trick question to check people's power of observation\n\nHere it is given 1 = 5. Therefore 5 = 1