hey this is pre
toker this problem is going viral right
now and it's being shared with the claim
that only a genius could solve it and
that 99%
fail many people are arguing about what
the correct answer is in this video I'm
going to explain what many people
believe to be the correct answer can you
figure it out give this problem a try
and when you're ready keep watching the
video for the solution
so before you start Computing the final
answer you should look very closely at
the last line the shapes are different
from the shapes in the previous lines
for example the clock in the final line
shows 2:00 but in the previous line it
shows
3:00 furthermore the bananas in the
final line have Bunches of Three Bananas
as compared to the other bunches in the
equations which have four
bananas finally the last shape has only
11 edges compared to the other shape in
the figures which has 15
edges so in order to solve this problem
we're going to have to figure out
numerical values that we can figure out
and apply to the final line so let's try
and see if there's any logical structure
to these equations
we'll start out with the first equation
we have three of these shapes which are
equal to
45 this simplifies to one hexagon being
equal to
15 however it's not just a hexagon if
you look closely at the shape it
consists of a hexagon which has six
edges a pentagon which has five edges
and a square which has four edges we're
going to have to figure out a value for
the edges in order that we can figure
out a value for the shape in the final
line so we can simplify this if we count
the total number of edges This shape has
15 edges and it's equal to 15 so we can
conclude that one Edge is equal to
one we'll take this information and use
it to solve the next
equation we can replace the hexagon
figure with the value of 15 that we just
figured out we now have two bunches of
bananas that will be equal to 23 - 15
which is
8 we can simplify that a single bunch of
bananas is equal to 4 now look closely
at this bunch of bananas there are four
bananas in the bunch and that's equal to
four so that would simplify to mean one
banana is equal to
one we'll take this information and use
it to solve the next
equation we have a bunch of four bananas
which we know will be equal to four
we're adding that to two clocks which
show
3:00 and that's going to be equal to 10
when we take 10 - 4 we get 6 so we have
two clocks showing 3:00 that's equal to
6 we can simplify that one clock showing
3:00 is equal to 3 now since 3:00 is
equal to 3 that would suggest that each
hour is equal to
1 we now have the information needed to
evaluate the last
line we start out with a clock that
shows 2:00 since each hour is equal to 1
we can assign a value of two
here we now have a bunch of bananas
where each Bunch has three bananas since
each banana is equal to one we can say
each Bunch has a value of
three we finally have a shape
and there are 11 edges in total to this
shape we're missing the Square from the
previous figure in the earlier
equations since each Edge is equal to 1
11 edges would be equal to
11 so we're now ready to evaluate this
expression but we have to remember one
more thing we have a multiplication in
this equation so we need to evaluate
that first according to the order of
operations 3 * 11 11 is equal to
33 we have 2 + 3 +
33 so what's our final answer 2 + 3 + 33
is equal to 38 and that's the answer to
this puzzle did you figure it
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