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This brain-teasing math puzzle is missing a number — can you solve it?
Insider ^ | Oct 3, 2018 | Talia Lakritz

Posted on 10/04/2018 4:25:21 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

Puzzles9 shared a brain teaser with three pentagons, each with a set of five numbers.

The middle pentagon is missing a number.

To fill in the missing number, you must figure out the relationship between the numbers in the pentagons and continue the sequence.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: brainteaser; math
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I personally think they are over complicating it. I picked Zero.
1 posted on 10/04/2018 4:25:21 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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2 posted on 10/04/2018 4:28:20 PM PDT by NutsOnYew
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10.

The number of each vertex of the third pentagon is the difference of the numbers at the corresponding vertex of the first two pentagons.


3 posted on 10/04/2018 4:28:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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Too easy


4 posted on 10/04/2018 4:29:01 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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I will hunt you down.


5 posted on 10/04/2018 4:29:09 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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6 posted on 10/04/2018 4:29:21 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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Agree. 0.


7 posted on 10/04/2018 4:30:04 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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Nothing about a sequence.


8 posted on 10/04/2018 4:30:15 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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Eight. Entries in middle pentagon is the sum of corresponding entries in the outer pentagons.


9 posted on 10/04/2018 4:30:17 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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10 .... add the number in angle on the left pentagon to the corresponding number in the right pentagon and that equals to the number in the middle Pentagon
10 posted on 10/04/2018 4:30:22 PM PDT by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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11 posted on 10/04/2018 4:30:34 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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Can’t add today....


12 posted on 10/04/2018 4:31:02 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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I don’t care but.....beer


13 posted on 10/04/2018 4:31:08 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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LOL!


14 posted on 10/04/2018 4:31:16 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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15 posted on 10/04/2018 4:31:41 PM PDT by Abby4116
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👍
16 posted on 10/04/2018 4:31:51 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Steely Tom

The numbers in the pentagons add up to 20 for A and C. So 0 would make B add to 20.


17 posted on 10/04/2018 4:32:22 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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I believe Christine!

Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. 😝

18 posted on 10/04/2018 4:32:49 PM PDT by Prince of Space (UNBORN LIVES MATTER!)
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19 posted on 10/04/2018 4:33:46 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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20 posted on 10/04/2018 4:33:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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