There are two answers to this viral puzzle. Can you figure out both?
A puzzle going viral on the Internet has everyone confused. The bizarre test, which asks you to find a pattern between four equations, has two answers - and has led to numerous heated debates online. In fact, if the
Daily Mail is to be believed, only one in a 1,000 people can figure out the second answer. Go ahead and see if you can solve it:
The two answers to the puzzle are 40 and 96.
How, you ask? Well...
For the first solution, you begin with 1 + 4 to get 5
Then, you add 2 + 5 to the first answer of 5 to reach 12
Similarly, adding 3 + 6 to 12 gives 21
In the end, 8 + 11 + 21 = 40
The quick answer, therefore, is 40, arrived at by simply adding each equation with the sum from the previous equation.
The second answer is a little more complicated
One way to arrive at the answer of 5 in the first equation is to add 1 to (4 x 1)
Following that rule, other equations will be solved like this:
2 + (2 x 5) = 12
3 + (3 x 6) = 21
8 + (8 x 11) = 96
As is only to be expected, the puzzle has received some hate on the Internet too. However, many have pointed out that both the answers are correct since it is not a math puzzle but a logic puzzle.
Were you able to solve the question in the first try? Let us know using the comments section below.
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