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The Cheryl Math Problem

Zhuorb
about 10 years

How many of you actually solved it without googling for a solution?

http://puu.sh/hh1Te/054b3c6fc0.jpeg

Did you?
11
1st try
8
Googled shamelessly
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I deserve a national medal for my work in this thread in Math and Art
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Yes I read above posts and people were squandering
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i like the bit where u wrote 'this is isn't really difficult', lol. u seem unsure, shivv
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Peta says


Shivv says

this is isn't really difficult guys, like the only only issue is people failing to interpret that Albert just outed that arbitrarily

- albert says words
- the fact that he knows immediately that it can't be bernard means he doesn't have a month with a unique date so you can rule out may and june
- then when bernard says he figured it out that means he must have one out of 15, 16, 17 as the 14's are eliminated due to not being unique
- then when albert figures it out we know it's june 16 and not the two august dates since he wouldn't be able to work it out in that case.

thank u


You're wrong lol


Yes! Typo
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it blew up because it's about 2 dudes chasing a girl + it is confusing like women
Jaleb
about 10 years
Because it was on a high school math contest. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/science/a-math-problem-from-singapore-goes-viral-when-is-cheryls-birthday.html?_r=0&referrer=
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idk why people even say this is a math problem, it's a stupid logic problem. i would've gotten it on my first try but instead of eliminating the whole months based off what the first guy said I omitted specific dates which screwed me up. After I saw the answer i went back and did it.
Jaleb
about 10 years

Peta says

If there were a June 16 then the real answer wouldn't be reachable anyway.


It still would be dismissed through statement 1
Weed420
about 10 years

Shivv says

this is isn't really difficult guys, like the only only issue is people failing to interpret that Albert just outed that arbitrarily

- albert says words
- the fact that he knows immediately that it can't be bernard means he doesn't have a month with a unique date so you can rule out may and june
- then when bernard says he figured it out that means he must have one out of 15, 16, 17 as the 14's are eliminated due to not being unique
- then when albert figures it out we know it's june 16 and not the two august dates since he wouldn't be able to work it out in that case.

thank u


july 16th
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ya it would, it'd make no difference
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oh ok lol
Peta
about 10 years
If there were a June 16 then the real answer wouldn't be reachable anyway.
Peta
about 10 years
Shivv said June 16 and the answer isn't June 16. I said he was wrong because I remembered there being June 16 as an actual answer, which isn't true.
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peta it wouldn't make a difference if there was a june 16th bro
Peta
about 10 years
People are literally trying to argue that August 17 is a legitimate answer because they can't admit to themselves that they made a mistake on a problem that is hardly even a measure of intelligence. It's a logic puzzle.
Jaleb
about 10 years
I remember seeing this before the internet blew up about it. It's strange people are going wild about a high school contest problem.
Peta
about 10 years
Oh I misremembered there being a June 16.
Jaleb
about 10 years

Peta says


Shivv says

this is isn't really difficult guys, like the only only issue is people failing to interpret that Albert just outed that arbitrarily

- albert says words
- the fact that he knows immediately that it can't be bernard means he doesn't have a month with a unique date so you can rule out may and june
- then when bernard says he figured it out that means he must have one out of 15, 16, 17 as the 14's are eliminated due to not being unique
- then when albert figures it out we know it's june 16 and not the two august dates since he wouldn't be able to work it out in that case.

thank u


You're wrong lol


Damn that typo of a month means he is wrong. Gg
Weed420
about 10 years
trolled
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well he's not really but he's dumb
Peta
about 10 years

Shivv says

this is isn't really difficult guys, like the only only issue is people failing to interpret that Albert just outed that arbitrarily

- albert says words
- the fact that he knows immediately that it can't be bernard means he doesn't have a month with a unique date so you can rule out may and june
- then when bernard says he figured it out that means he must have one out of 15, 16, 17 as the 14's are eliminated due to not being unique
- then when albert figures it out we know it's june 16 and not the two august dates since he wouldn't be able to work it out in that case.

thank u


You're wrong lol
Peta
about 10 years
I got the wrong answer most people got, reread it, and got the right answer pretty quickly. It's actually really simple; it's just a matter of whether you have practice with logic puzzles.
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It was easy, I just used logic instead of math.
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it was really easy. i pretty much just read the answer reading this thing
hedger
about 10 years
This was really easy...

Only problem was misreading the question and trying to solve possibilities for Albert being given the day or the month, when I didn't realise it said which one was given the day/month until a second reread.