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Ultimate math trick question?

Red Baron Farms said:
Not that I saw, but I am sure even you can get it right if you just stopped playing it off as stupid and simply tried solving it like the math puzzle it remains.
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You already told me my answer of 14 was correct. I got that correct answer by treating it as a math puzzle.
 
William Parcher said:
You already told me my answer of 14 was correct. I got that correct answer by treating it as a math puzzle.
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14 is not wrong it is simply incomplete. That should be a huge hint to you and others who have all been dancing around the answer but all missing it somehow.

It's analogous to the square root of 4 being 2......and/or -2. :D
 
I am sure that the "correct" answer has to do with the leap years. Like someone said ... the OP is engaging in pedantic silliness. The answer of 14 is correct enough.
 
We're all watching the Kobiashi Maru, and RBF is soon to proclaim victory for having reprogrammed the scenario. :rolleyes:
 
Red Baron Farms said:
Not that I saw...
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So did you post the true correct answer at the forum site where 1755 people got it wrong and nobody got it right including the person who posted the puzzle?

I'm slightly concerned that you believe you might be the only person anywhere that knows the answer. You haven't mentioned ever seeing the correct answer. You've said that the people posting in this thread are VERY VERY smart. Yet we are all not really correct and YOU ARE.

Are you like the smartest person on earth, or is your answer going to be something where people then argue that you aren't really right but rather are posing an opinion?
 
I suspect the claimed “correct” answer will include something silly like a person being born on Dec 31, 2016 is one year younger than a person born on Jan 1, 2017.
 
We could consider half as old counted by days, leaving out leap day and counting by integer days. 4 years old is between 1460 days and 1824 days inclusive. That means the sister is between 730 days and 912 days inclusive.

You are between 1824-730=1094 days and 1460-912=548 days older than your sister. If your sister is 12 and just had her birthday, then you are at the minimum 13 (548 mod 365 = 1). If your sister's birthday is tomorrow, you are maximum 15 ((1094+364) mod 365 = 3). You could also be 14.

We could also consider half as old counted as integer years, again leaving out leap days and counting only integer days. Here you are 4 years old and your sister is 2 years old. So the max difference is you are 4 * 365 + 364 = 1824 and your sister is 2 * 365 = 730. So a difference of 1094 days. The min difference is you are 4 * 365 = 1460, your sister is 2 * 365 + 364 = 1094. So a difference of 366 days. This gives the same result as the above. Using the min difference on your sister's birthday makes you one year older. Using the max difference on the day before your sister's birthday makes you 3 years older.

BTW, if this is a pedantic thing about people born on leap year only having a birthday every 4 years, I swear...
 
Elagabalus said:
A=4+x where x is between 1 and 364 days.

Somebody else due the math coz I suck at it.
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That's not a math puzzle, that's math homework.

Not that the OP is much of a math puzzle itself. Either RBF sucks at basic algebra, or RBF sucks at reckoning age in the customary manner, or RBF is playing at far more silly buggers than they're ready to admit.

At this point their best option might be to *not* reveal the answer. Whatever it is, it won't live up to the hype or overcome the ill will.

I gotta figure that if 1700 people see and solve a simple math problem, then that is pretty much the correct answer. At that point anything else is effectively the hipster douchebag answer.

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