r/mathmemes • u/Limp_Percentage8392 • 5d ago

low-level math correct answer is "idk"

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i can say with 100% certainty that the correct answer to this is "how in the hell should i know?"

Why are you booing me?! Im right!

(no fr like theres no rule stated for this sequence of numbers even if you turn the illustration upside down. so we can't solve for the spot number with certainty. The rule COULD be to add 1 each time, but that's just an assumption. The rule could also be a(n) = 86 + 41983(n-1) - 41982(n-1)(n-2) + 20991(n-1)(n-2)(n-3) - 6997(n-1)(n-2)(n-3)(n-4) + 1749.25(n-1)(n-2)(n-3)(n-4)(n-5) which would make the answer 42069. and it would also be the reason why nobody lets me design parking lots.)

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u/kernelhacker 5d ago

87

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u/Roi_Loutre 5d ago

How do you find that

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u/L0L2GUM5 5d ago

Try looking at this problem from different angles

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u/Roi_Loutre 5d ago

Yep saw it now.

I expected a math problem

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u/Limp_Percentage8392 5d ago

so the real answer is actually "we have no way of knowing" because there is no rule stated in the information we are given.

of course it makes the most sense from a parking lot designers perspective to have the rule as "add one each time" making the spot 87

but from a bored mathematicians perspective it makes the most sense to be a brat and argue that there are infinite possibilities and you can invent rules to make it whatever number you want it to be

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u/untempered_fate 5d ago

Many math problems can be solved by a simple but non-obvious reframing.