Okay... while I was doing my random browsing, I discovered the following puzzle on this page:
It didn't take me too long to come up with a solution. My answer was 370 - and, here's why:
However, the solution that's given in the article is 296, with the following explanation:
However, I don't think this is a very good 'solution'. The main problem I have with it is: if you re-order the list, the answers will change (whereas in my solution, the answers would always the same no matter what order they were listed in). You can fix this objection by instead using the alternative pattern I spotted which gives the same result - but even then, there's no reason to pick this solution over the one I originally identified.
So, do you agree with the solution presented in the article, or do you prefer the one I came up with? Or do you think it's just an ambiguous question that doesn't have a single definitive solution?
It didn't take me too long to come up with a solution. My answer was 370 - and, here's why:
My solution
However, the solution that's given in the article is 296, with the following explanation:
Article's solution
However, I don't think this is a very good 'solution'. The main problem I have with it is: if you re-order the list, the answers will change (whereas in my solution, the answers would always the same no matter what order they were listed in). You can fix this objection by instead using the alternative pattern I spotted which gives the same result - but even then, there's no reason to pick this solution over the one I originally identified.
So, do you agree with the solution presented in the article, or do you prefer the one I came up with? Or do you think it's just an ambiguous question that doesn't have a single definitive solution?
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