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Excuse me, Apple, why is the calculator wrong?
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You may have heard about this viral tweet that racked up 11 million views and sparked a huge math debate. What is the correct answer to 50 50 x 2 = ? And why do scientific calculators multiply numbers before adding? 0:00 controversy 1:09 correct answer 4:15 why is it true Tweet Apple calculator is wrong x.com/stillgray/status/1775754564727341345 Clavis mathematicae. English. 1702. Mr. William O...
Why is πr² the formula for a circle's area?
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This formula has been known since ancient times. How did they figure it out? 0:00 intro 3:10 Archimedes 6:25 Leonardo and Sato Moshun 8:20 RABH en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:九章算術細草圖說.jpg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(mathematician)#/media/File:Synopsis_Palmariorum_Matheseos_pi.jpg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryabhata#Approximation_of_π Archimedes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_of_a_circle#Archimedes...
Can you solve this fraction question from China?
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This question is from the Hua Luogeng math competition in China. I was told it was for elementary school students (ages 10-12). There are many interesting ways to solve this question! Special thanks this month to: Daniel Lewis, Kyle, Lee Redden, Mike Robertson. Thanks to all supporters on Patreon! www.patreon.com/mindyourdecisions 0:00 problem 1:05 method 1 5:36 method 2 7:22 method 3 9:48 meth...
Famous mathematician puzzled by child's homework
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How many degrees are inside of a circle? This sounds like a simple question, until you think about it carefully. Timothy Gowers Twitter wtgowers/status/1784642929169977781 Follow up x.com/wtgowers/status/1786692095169699958 Euclid definition archive.org/details/tayloreuclid00euclrich/page/n29/mode/2up Kalendereinteilung im Grab des Senenmut (TT353); astronomical ceiling in the tomb ...
Is this even solvable? What is the radius?
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This problem is making the rounds and it can be solved in many different ways. 0:00 problem 0:37 estimate 1:14 method 1 3:49 method 2 6:37 method 3 9:55 method 4 Twitter Math_World_/status/1735173617401450887 Reddit www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1cl11ya/request_this_isnt_solveable_right/ Subscribe: ruclips.net/user/MindYourDecisions Send me suggestions by email (address a...
Can You Solve The Martini Glass Puzzle? A Simple Illusion That Fools Most People
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Just how full is your cocktail glass anyway? The answer will surprise you. Poll ruclips.net/user/postUgkxxBSY86GkMhByJDRh29F3I0L_spZXx4Vf CueMath ruclips.net/user/shortsiwi6q_oonQs DataGenetics datagenetics.com/blog/february32020/index.html Subscribe: ruclips.net/user/MindYourDecisions Send me suggestions by email (address at end of many videos). I may not reply but I do consider all ideas! If ...
Very few can solve this puzzle. How many squares?
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How many squares can be made, using any 4 points as corners? 0:00 problem 0:30 solution 3:24 animation puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/2079/how-many-squares-can-you-find-in-the-picture Subscribe: ruclips.net/user/MindYourDecisions Send me suggestions by email (address at end of many videos). I may not reply but I do consider all ideas! If you purchase through these links, I may be compensa...
A legendary question from the toughest exam
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This legendary question from India's JEE Advanced test is so hard that most people would not even attempt it. Only 78 out of 161,319 were able to correctly solve it. solution by kludg math.stackexchange.com/questions/3478135/number-of-ordered-pairs-of-a-b-in-probability Other solutions byjus.com/question-answer/let-x-denotes-the-number-of-elements-in-a-set-x-let-s-123456-be/ ruclips.net/video/g...
Can you solve this 2nd grade problem that has baffled adults?
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A question assigned to 7 year old students completely stumped a mother who posted it online asking for help. Reddit AskMath www.reddit.com/r/askmath/comments/1388g9q/2nd_grade_math_question_that_we_cant_figure_out/ Wikipedia Addition en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addition Kidspot www.kidspot.com.au/parenting/primary-school/internet-stumped-by-impossible-year-2-maths-question/news-story/6a6c6ddb2a7bce84...
Can you solve this Oxford admissions question?
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The 2007 Oxford entrance exam had a delightful question: given equations of two circles, can you find the shortest distance and the points that are closest to each other? Special thanks this month to: Mike Robertson, Daniel Lewis, Kyle, Lee Redden. Thanks to all supporters on Patreon! www.patreon.com/mindyourdecisions Oxford 2007 test question 1, part D www.maths.ox.ac.uk/system/files/attachmen...
A hard ACT question and an Olympiad problem
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The first problem is based on a question from the American ACT exam. Thanks to Irakli Dolbaia for suggesting problem 2! This comes from a math exam in the country Georgia. 0:00 problems 1:26 solution 1 2:24 solution 2 Problem 1 Web2.0calc web2.0calc.com/questions/in-the-equation-x-2-mx-n-0-m-and-n-are-intergers-the-only-possible-for-x-is-3-what-is-the-value-of-m Quora www.quora.com/In-the-equat...
Can you solve this 4th grade problem?
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This puzzle was popular on X, formerly known as Twitter. Can you figure it out? There are more solutions than you might expect! Tweet from Dr. Catharine Young catgyoung/status/1780732556989591721 Subscribe: ruclips.net/user/MindYourDecisions Send me suggestions by email (address at end of many videos). I may not reply but I do consider all ideas! If you purchase through these links,...
Can you solve the missing square puzzle?
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The infinite chocolate trick is one of my favorite illusions. How is this even possible to re-arrange areas and have 1 extra square? To fully To understand what is going on, it is useful to solve a homework question from Reddit AskMath. Missing square illusion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle Reddit AskMath www.reddit.com/r/askmath/comments/1alm3lh/is_the_correct_answer_22_or_24/ Sub...
Can you solve the puzzle that's dividing the internet?
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Can you solve the puzzle that's dividing the internet?
Can you solve the impossible day of the week logic puzzle?
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Can you solve the impossible day of the week logic puzzle?
Can You Solve The Four 9s Puzzle?
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Can You Solve The Four 9s Puzzle?
Can you solve these geometry problems?
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Can you solve these geometry problems?
Can you figure out Lila's age?
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Can you figure out Lila's age?
Can you solve these impossible area questions?
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Can you solve these impossible area questions?
This logic puzzle stumped ChatGPT. Can you solve it?
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This logic puzzle stumped ChatGPT. Can you solve it?
Solving a legendary puzzle
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Solving a legendary puzzle
Two nice series from India and Morocco
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Two nice series from India and Morocco
Can you solve for the area?
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Can you solve for the area?
2 nice logic puzzles - spy, liar, truthteller and chocolate wrappers
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2 nice logic puzzles - spy, liar, truthteller and chocolate wrappers
Can you solve these viral puzzles?
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Can you solve these viral puzzles?
What is the total area of ABC? You should be able to solve this!
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What is the total area of ABC? You should be able to solve this!
Solving 2 questions from the world's hardest exams
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Solving 2 questions from the world's hardest exams
Can you solve the 4 foods puzzle?
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Can you solve the 4 foods puzzle?
Can you solve this first grade homework problem?
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Can you solve this first grade homework problem?

Комментарии

  • @RikuHino
    @RikuHino 9 часов назад

    I think the issue is most people assume that you can only shade the smaller squares. Not realizing that there is no reason why you cant. I personally thought of the 2nd solution. But yeah math really is harder written out because of the way one might interpret the meaning of what the question is asking. I do that sometimes when people are talking to me.

  • @appleseedgames6934
    @appleseedgames6934 9 часов назад

    I got confused with angle vs corner, that's probably what the teach thought. There are 0 angles in a semi-circle and 2 corners to a semi-circle

  • @samjos3229
    @samjos3229 9 часов назад

    I wasnt expecting it to be that easy

  • @robertcook5201
    @robertcook5201 9 часов назад

    Took me 5 seconds for the first, the rest follow.

  • @OneAndOnlyRoss
    @OneAndOnlyRoss 9 часов назад

    Just to share my thought process: the number has 16 zeroes, as in, 16 places to place a number excluding the most significant digit, which in this case it's 1 but it could be any. that means that at the very least, the answer needs to have half or more than half of 16 digits, so 8, which means A is out of the question. Now I thought out of the box: if I take a power of 10 and square it, which one gets me closer to the answer? B has 9 digits, so 10^8 because we need the 9th digit to be 1. So we get (10^8)2, which is 1 followed by 16 zeroes. Hmmmm, looks familiar, right? We don't even have to check the rest of the answers cause if it gives us more than 16 zeroes using the powers of 10, its gonna be a number too big.

  • @uhlan30
    @uhlan30 9 часов назад

    This could have been a 30 second RUclips short

  • @najmulhasan2484
    @najmulhasan2484 9 часов назад

    Fantastic ❤

  • @tarassu
    @tarassu 9 часов назад

    interesting. i wanted to shade half. but not like that. i would shade a corner

  • @CraigClarkeJr.
    @CraigClarkeJr. 9 часов назад

    I am a math teacher. At no point does he say these shapes are planar. On a convex surface, the sum of the measures of the angles of a triangle always sums to more than 180 degrees. The opposite is true for concave surfaces. This logic applies to all polygons.

  • @bend.manevitz8261
    @bend.manevitz8261 10 часов назад

    Well done. I think you kind of skipped a little quickly over the y=x^n has n roots (fundamental thm). But otherwise nicely explained and visualized.

  • @davia.sampaio8633
    @davia.sampaio8633 10 часов назад

    In my time of school i would probably have written 360, but now, i would mark the question as wrong (like if i was correcting the teacher's homework) and write a 10 pages long essay about circle, poligons and grammar to prove a point

  • @KingJamie2229
    @KingJamie2229 10 часов назад

    PLEASE READ AND LET ME KNOW IF I'M WRONG T Y ! This is simple, The reason most people find it confusing is not the math, It's the fact that you use a word, "ALSO" as if you're looking for both a complete shaded square and a complete unshaded square at the same time, You can't. So in reality, If you're not going to use proper grammar, an adult shouldn't be able to give you a proper answer to this question!

  • @Timetravelingpancake-uj7rw
    @Timetravelingpancake-uj7rw 10 часов назад

    that’s an octagon 👽🥄

  • @GH0STBR4WLST4RS
    @GH0STBR4WLST4RS 10 часов назад

    Seeing the cool illusion: ❌ Vibing to the music: ✅

  • @darcash1738
    @darcash1738 10 часов назад

    He says all of his hats are green. He either has no hats, and certainly none would be green or he has hats, of which at least one is not green.

  • @IbuMudayanah
    @IbuMudayanah 11 часов назад

    😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

  • @omnimatt2239
    @omnimatt2239 11 часов назад

    "A meaningless truth"? Much like this meaningless video...

  • @TheRealBlindSquirrel
    @TheRealBlindSquirrel 11 часов назад

    Still makes more sense than common core

  • @idonthaveagamingchair
    @idonthaveagamingchair 11 часов назад

    Bruh it’s so easy thooooo i’m wayyy past grade 4

  • @basildraws
    @basildraws 11 часов назад

    No, the question isn’t “fair” because I guarantee that the writer didn’t consider the difference between a circle’s central angle and the sum of interior angles of a polygon. The writer was simply regurgitating figures they had in front of them and expecting students to parrot the answers without thought. The answer ‘infinity’ should have been rewarded and the test should be rewritten to correctly test the students’ knowledge of geometry without ambiguity.

  • @SuperCripple
    @SuperCripple 11 часов назад

    99 + 9/9

  • @skiffee1134
    @skiffee1134 11 часов назад

    2:00 This second possibility immediately counters the definition of "lies" that you just gave... the second possibility would make it a misleading statement. This isn't a tricky logic puzzle, it's just poorly worded and lacking clear information. It's a bad 'question.'

  • @NettoTakashi
    @NettoTakashi 12 часов назад

    From the Oxford English dictionary: price /prīs/ noun 1. The amount as of money or goods, asked for or given in exchange for something else. *2. The cost at which something is obtained.* _"believes that the price of success is hard work."_ 3. The cost of bribing someone. _"maintained that every person has a price."_ The price is, unambiguously, what the book costs. Anyone digging into technicalities about what the cost to the seller was, or sales tax that might have been added onto the price, or any number of other things that introduce ambiguity where it was CLEARLY not intended by the writer, is drastically overthinking things.

  • @GodspeedDaily
    @GodspeedDaily 12 часов назад

    Omg I literally solved that in a second this DID NOT stump adults

  • @antnoniojimenez8145
    @antnoniojimenez8145 12 часов назад

    Wouldn't it be 6/2(3)

  • @thomasharding1838
    @thomasharding1838 12 часов назад

    By applying the standards of usage of the English language to mathematics, you are completely destroying the absolute foundations of mathematics. To use the term "inside angle" for two dimensional figures of defined sides, you are referring to the angle formed at the intersection of adjacent sides. To use the same term to refer to the rotation of a radial line in a circle as it sweeps from a point on the circle around the circle back to the initial point, corrupts the meaning of the term "inside angle". Since there are an infinite numbers of points in a circle, there are an infinite number of side and since the sum of the inside angles = (number of sides -2) times 180º, the sum of the inside angles = infinity minus 360º. So maybe infinity is NOT the correct answer but "infinity minus 360 degrees" is. And when you add to or subtract from infinity, you still result to infinity. So YES, the question was poorly written.

  • @FelixNielsen
    @FelixNielsen 12 часов назад

    I would argue there are two possible answers, depending on perspective. Either the circle is considered a polygon with an infinite number of sides, in which case the answer is infinity, countable to be precise, or alternatively it has only one side, in which case there can be no interior angle, as an angle is defined by teo sides, thus the answer must be zero. A line is ambivalent in much the same way. Is it a one or two sided polygon? However the sum of the interior angles remain the same regardless. Going a step further down of course we have the point, which again can have no interior angles, thus the answers of zero. I suppose a circle could potentially be considered a two sided polygon, constructed with two doubly connected non straight lines, parallel where they meet, in which case you could argue that the answer is indeed 360 degrees, but then naturally this perspective would allow for any number of sides and amy answer being a multiple of 180, including infinity, excluding zero, or the case of 180 would be ambivalent Thus my initial conclusion, the answer must be infinity or zero, but in case if the ladder, a nire appropriate answer would be to state that a circle have no interior angles. Expecting an answer of 360 from someone who cannot be expected to make an argument for it, as i have attempted to do, is unreasonable to say the least, and is outright criminal to mark the answer of infinity as wrong. It is not. It is a matter of perspective, as the question is not clear, and in any case the answer of infinity suggests independent thought and an applaudable level of comprehension of the subject, whereas the answer of 360 does not. A teacher such as this is ni teachers at all. There is no excuse.

  • @barak363363
    @barak363363 12 часов назад

    Thanks!

  • @randomperson21983
    @randomperson21983 12 часов назад

    it took me 2 seconds to get this one

  • @carolheaden
    @carolheaden 12 часов назад

    You seemed to make you explanation way more complicated than needed. My right brain solved it two different ways before you began your rocket science explaination😮

  • @M2909Gamer
    @M2909Gamer 12 часов назад

    Me who understands the song

  • @rjtimmerman2861
    @rjtimmerman2861 12 часов назад

    3:15 I like to think about the total angle sum increase from an n-gon to an n+1-gon by adding a new 180° "angle" on one of the edges. Now, this doesn't immediately explain why the sum is the same for all different n+1-gons, but if you're willing to assume that is constant, this is a quick way to understand.

  • @user-ps9eb3oc5y
    @user-ps9eb3oc5y 13 часов назад

    Am I dululu or eveytime a new one comes out it brown 🤔

  • @noo6423
    @noo6423 13 часов назад

    alright, circles are squares, got it.

  • @OnaSoto
    @OnaSoto 14 часов назад

    This is a problem very reminiscent of that of the one from Meno written by Plato. To get half the area you connect the middle of the segments together.

  • @kilroy987
    @kilroy987 14 часов назад

    My answer would be, "What's the point of this?" Is the person applying for a job where they reverse engineer someone else's inputs and outputs?

  • @kandy1
    @kandy1 14 часов назад

    You are the error of assuming b to a whole number. It can be any number between 0 and "less than 10", including 0. Like 3.5.

  • @Gruuvin1
    @Gruuvin1 14 часов назад

    It's annoying when the video thumbnail is not the same as the challenge. The video thumbnail implied there must be some operator between each nine, and so I worked on it a bit before clicking. Then I felt cheated. Wasted time.

  • @superllama666____________3
    @superllama666____________3 14 часов назад

    3 corners to a triangle, an equilateral triangle has the same angles regardless of the side, how do you get 180 degrees? Youd not have a triangle, but a partially formed square

  • @mortsartstudio9403
    @mortsartstudio9403 14 часов назад

    I mean just shade half the squares diagonally to form a diamond shape in the middle. you technically shaded half, just not the half they wanted

  • @anonakkor9503
    @anonakkor9503 14 часов назад

    niceeeeee hahahhahaaaa

  • @thevikingbear2343
    @thevikingbear2343 14 часов назад

    The solution is shade among the diagonals. The resulting square is diagonally located but squares dont need to be horizontal anf vertical lines all the time so technically still a square.

  • @superllama666____________3
    @superllama666____________3 14 часов назад

    Arent they all 360 degrees?

  • @indianoutlaw5702
    @indianoutlaw5702 14 часов назад

    Fun!

  • @Tezunegari
    @Tezunegari 14 часов назад

    Assume the top middle point is the 12 on an analog clock. Draw a line from 12 to 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 9, and 9 to 12 turning the squares into pairs of triangles. Shade the outside triangles.

  • @kandy1
    @kandy1 14 часов назад

    2009.5 is also correct answere. 2+0+0+9.5 = 11.5 years old 2021-2009.5 = 11.5 years old. And the rest are 2014 and 2009.

    • @kandy1
      @kandy1 14 часов назад

      If you want i can post my solution.

  • @user-hp6pj4sy3k
    @user-hp6pj4sy3k 14 часов назад

    Impressive. If this is possible, perhaps Fermat really did have a legitimate proof of his last theorem?

  • @SKULLZFORALL
    @SKULLZFORALL 14 часов назад

    Use this before it gets patched next update

  • @constantinfedorov2307
    @constantinfedorov2307 14 часов назад

    Можно подвинуть пару правых прямых так, чтобы точка 7 перешла в 5, а 13 в 11. Получился прямоугольный треугольник (с неизвестными катетами), в который вписан квадрат, и вершина квадрата на гипотенузе делит её на отрезки 2 и 6. Надо найти площадь (ну, или сторону) квадрата. Это очень простая задача, где-то класса для 7. Так как вершина на гипотенузе лежит на биссектрисе прямого угла, то катеты относятся, как 1:3. Отсюда легко найти и катеты, и сторону квадрата, точнее, площадь 3,6

  • @Johnjefferson-zu3ik
    @Johnjefferson-zu3ik 14 часов назад

    Shade a square in the middle (1/4 of every square)