Posted on 06/06/2014 2:13:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This math question from an admissions test for an elementary school in Hong Kong is going viral in China.
According to ChinaSmack, it was the second-most-popular post on Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo on June 5, when it was published.
The question was part of an admissions test for first-graders. They had 20 seconds to answer. Can you solve it?
Stumped? Scroll down for the answer.
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87 upside down
They do math with Arabic numerals in China . . .
“Brothers and sisters I have none”
The man in the distance is the son of the speaker. However, it could be pointed out that the man in the distance could be the son of a deceased brother of the speaker, making him the speaker’s nephew.
“They do math with Arabic numerals in China . . .”
Indeed they do... But first graders don’t do math and haven’t been introduces to Arabic numerals yet.
Took me about 15 seconds. Probably slower than thoseHong Kong kids, tho.
How about this one that was going around email a while ago -——
A RIDDLE FOR SMART PEOPLE
Only 5% of Stanford University graduates
Figured it out!
Can you answer all seven of the following questions
With the same word?
1. The word has seven letters....
2. Preceded God...
3. Greater than God...
4. More Evil than the devil...
5. All poor people have it...
6. Wealthy people need it....
7. If you eat it, you will die.
Yeah. Rotate 180 about the vertical axis.
Nothing?
nothing
The car in that drawing looks like it backed into the parking spot.
c. 180 degrees clockwise.
I remember this one:
What is half of XI ?
Nobody has ever pointed out that possibility. And I’ve been asking people that riddle for many years. Good on ya,
I could have said “Brothers and sisters I’ve never had” but then that rhyming thing goes right out the window.
Hey -— FReepers are smart! (I got it, too)
A man stands before two doors and must choose one. One leads to certain death and the other to freedom, but the man does not know which. There is a guard before each door, one of which can only tell the truth and one of which can only lie. Again, the man does not know which. He may ask one question of either, but not both guards and make his choice on that basis. What does he ask?
YES! I “get” the answer they were shooting for, 87, but the 7 MUST be upside down, to be correct.
Bookmarking
oh that is sneaky
87, c (we had that kind of problem in jr high and high school drafting classes), half of XI is V.V or V/V(ha)
It’s a trick. I erased the car and found out there’s nothing there except some rubber (left over tire marks prolly, just sayin.) Maybe the guys painting that day forgot to paint that one, or maybe the car was there when they were painting, so they though they’d come back some other day, and either forgot, or maybe they just haven’t gotten back to it on their list of parking spots to go back and paint.
If there WERE a number there it would probably be in the millions, because that’s a pretty big car, for Asia. They drive smaller cars than we do because of being on the bottom of the Earth a heavy car falls off and they all die and stuff like that CRASH into the moon.
But you better not tunnel through the Earth to find out the number cause
1. It’s not there, I already checked and too, ...
The car might fall on your head just when you thought you were going to see the answer, upside down, is all I’m saying to you.
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