The creator of a math challenge that is sweeping Facebook claims that only one in 1,000 people can guess the two possible answers. Your auntie must be one in 1,000 because I guessed the answer on my first try.
The math challenge is very simple if you don’t think of it as a standard addition problem.
The test, created by Go Tumble, is sparking heated debates all over the world, according to London’s Daily Mail.
Can you guess the very simple answer?
Update: For those of you who had trouble answering this simple math test, the answer is below. To those of you got the answer: you are one in 1,000!
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40?
96
Easy 40
40
96?
92
32 lol ?
Time for me to go on lunch….ain’t nobody got time for dis..
40oz
It’s 96
40
109
40
40!!!
40
39
40
The answer is 96
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40, I guess?
Wasn’t all that hard.
It’s pretty simple.
Add 1 + 4 = 5
Add 2 + 5 to 5 = 12.
Add 3 + 6 to 12 = 21
Add 8 + 11 to 21
Answer is 40
96 eh??
40 it looks like the just keep adding each line together.
I multiplied first then added i got 96???
The way I looked at it was this way:
1+4 (1x)= 5
2+5 (2×5= 10+2) =12
3+6 (3X6= 18+3) = 21
8+11 (8X11= 88+11) = 96
I say 96.
I guess it can be 96 if you multiply and then add the front number but there are addition signs. I’m confused.
40
Umm this was not hard. I am confident in my answer of 109
Rent em spoons!!
The creator of this math challenge might be wrong in thinking how many people would guess it correctly.
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40!!
I won…gimme my munnnnny https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/39a190832f5de5dc94b7f0a6c913f51fd859609024d661237891bb37ecbe4d7f.gif
My answer is 40
How about I do don’t do math, so I’m not even going to rack my brain ?. I excelled in the English language….
Whanggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
Where you been?
Its me. Mandinga.
Heyyyyyyyyyyyy…. “Mandinga??”
Who?
LOL…gimme a hug anyways!
96
My answer is 40
Ummm. let me think. oooo oooo I know. Karlie Redd. She is an octogenarian sandwich artist.
The makers of this test say only one in 1000 will figure out the second possible answer to the test. Now while 40 is correct it is the 1st possible answer.
OT:
And I may be late…but ummm….
I just saw on tv that a certain blog owner got paid $100k to retract an article about Charlie Sheen having HIV, before the news broke years ago.
No it wasn’t Auntie.
I was shocked that the Enquirer had copies of the money transfer and everything.
Wow.
How bout dat! Cause I dont either!
My answer was also 40
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lemme do my sexy “glad to see you” dance….
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How you been? How is your husband? I missed you
Alls good. I missededed you too!!!
40 and I hate math just for this reason.
This math problem is too hard and I blame Obama
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11*8=88+8=96
I came for the Tea and shade on break from work,only to see homework.
I say 40….
Yea I got 96
What the hell does any of this mean…1+4 does equal 5…the rest makes no sense…
I hate math…?
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40
40/96 are the answers
1+4=5
5+2+5=12
12+6+3=21
21+8+11=40
The answer is…
Yo Mamma!!! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e8aee927241fe47b7c8b85dbbf617492e8c70c7732207d660148b9b6914b1d76.gif
U so smart..https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2f5f9f67b6fa2e4f8c939a3af0180c4bc2b1705776a46a7d2d3bc5f532f5905b.gif
40
Seriously though 96
See yall in here playing this afternoon….SMH. ANNDDD yall answering it!
WHY YALLL DIDNT TELL ME BOOBY IS ON LHH HOLLYWOOD WITH HIS BABY MAMA AND THEY BOTH SELLING FISH PLATES??????
DANG… I was typing this….. GOTEM
40! So simple
40!
In other news, that Black China person’s sidepieces are coming out of the woodwork. One dude said all he had to do was buy her some chicken wings and he was able to smash her nasty rash ass. Fat ass hoe need to fade into the background of the national forest and get lost.
Keisha Cole and Booby is finna tear hollywood up! with a side of SLAW
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Miami dont do that now! She been a HOE, she has white liver and its been obvious.. But dont let that lil depressed azz Kardashian make you think any lower of her than you do boo…He is KRAY KRAY and she had a baby with him…..thats what her azz get. He didnt repo that shit.. His mama and sisters did..giggling
40?
40
Add
4+1=5
5+5+2=12
12+3+6=21
21+11+8=40
1+4 = 5 (5+7=12)
2+5 =12 (12+9=21)
3+6 = 21 (21+11 =32)
4+7 = 32 (32 + 13= 45)
5+8 = 45 (45 +15 =60)
6+9 = 60 (60 +17 =77)
7+10 =77 (77 + 19 =96)
8+11 =96
ANSWER is 96
(3 is the number to be added to the 1st number)
I came up with 40
I can see 40 being the answer… but 96 makes more sense because you can apply the same math for all of them even with the 1=4=5. Where as if 40 is the answer then there is an assumption that nothing special was done with 1+4=5.
I got the same number, but in a different way: Instead of addition, I turned it in to a multiplication question. Add plus one to the second variable. So originally it is
1 + 4 = 5
2 + 5 = 12
3 + 6 = 21
8 +11 = ?
I read it as
1 x 4 (+1) = 5
2 x 5 (+1) = 12
3 x 6 (+1) = 21
8 x 11 (+1) = 96
Nah, I wasn’t referring to Rob. I was referring to one of her sidepieces that side all he had to do was buy her some wings and she was busting it open. But yeah, Rob’s mama and ‘nem probably repossessed all her shit.
BTW, what is white liver? Never heard that term before.
40, add current problem, then add to previous answer. 8+11=19, 19+21=40
Oh wow. I didn’t think of that….
Thats a Great way to do it too.
Interesting!
Thanks for that heads up.
The answer is 40
It’s 40! Lmao
And I got 96 another way lol.
1+4 = 5
2 + 5 = 12
3 + 6 = 21
8 +11 = ?
I did:
(1 x 4) +1= 5
(2 x 5) +2= 12
(3 x 6) +3= 21
(8 x 11) +8= 96
They’re literally taking the last equaled out number and plusing it with the next equation
Fawty!
I think it’s 2
its 40….
The answer is 40 ?
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Lol..
8+11=19 two more equal 21
Booby got another baby mama besides keyshia?
I don’t care what the answer is ?
Math is rules. If its not standard addition why is it written as such?
96???
The first number is the sequence 4 X 1 then you add the 1 which equals 5.
8 +11 is (11 X 8 +8) = 96 its the sequence
The answer is 2
Its sequence math more like brain teasers…
How did you arbitrarily change a plus sign to a multiplication symbol??? Inquiring minds “DON’T” understand.
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I agree with you
It’s truly amazing how Math can be done so many ways and will come up to the same SUM. Dopeness. I’m not too familiar with Algebra. Its been so long.. 20 years
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Its a logic problem then…not math
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I cheated
! Well, ultimately you’re going to have to change some facet of the equation in order for it to make sense though.
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40
Dayuuuuum!!! That escalated quickly…
This is trolling lmao.. He simply added the Totals together after each line… Yes it’s 40. haaa
nope
Here’s the answer from youtube…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM1NNRNmZ6c
Lol. You got the answer but you went to a lot of trouble to get it. It’s really simple:
4+5+6+11= 26
1+2+3+8= 14
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26 + 14 = 40
40?
1 + 4 = 5*
2+5 + (5*) = 12
3+6 + (12*) = 21
8+11 + (21) = 40
haaaaaaa
I’m going to slap you for getting this wrong.
The answer is 40
I guess you could work it out that way… lol… And a million other ways. Nobody knows what was in the mind of the creator of this problem. 40 or 96 would be correct.
96 is what I figured also. That pattern works the same.
I agree 96! If it’s 40 also, there must be two patterns in this exercise
I came up with 40 but I was edumacated in Griffin, Ga. Auntie am I right?? Am I smart today?????
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i picked 96
You’re reading too much into it. It’s very simple addition. The answer is 40.
I updated the post with the answer.
I updated the post with the correct answer.
Correct.
“You Is Smart, You Is Kind, You Is Important” ?
Sweet!
Thats dope how it can be 2 diff Answers.
I was with the 96 click! ;D
That’s why I said the answer was simple! People trying to use algebra and calculus to answer a simple addition problem. ?
Thanks Sandra Rose!
I pretty much was just following the initial pattern and realized that 4-7 equations were missing….And came up with it that way…
Auntie said the answer is 40 though? I came up with 96 as well. I can see both answers being correct.
This was fun! Got the juices flowing earlier this morning. Made me put my thinking cap on. Thanks Sandra!
40. Got it on my 1st guess. Took me 2 mins. Thanks, Mom. I’m guessing I must’ve inherited some of her math major ability.
Yippy! I got 40 on my first try! I is smart. I is kind. I is important. *Aibileen’s voice* ?
Someone made a comment in another post that ask this question.
“Has Chloe always been Chloe? Not Chuck or Charles because she built like a Buick.”
My reply is this. She is built like her daddy OJ’s Ford Bronco or better yet she’s built like the dump truck from the construction site. Trash in the trunk and eerything.
The goose is reminiscent of Black Chyna in her all white in court last week. The pigeons are all the Instagram Thots , hoes, strippers who long to be her ! They are all doing the victory dance!
Yea it was pretty easy & im not the brightest crayon in the box???
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I got it the first try too… It’s obvious. adding the answers together.
It took me a little longer….but I got it…wasn’t going to leave until I did….
If I stare at something long enough I’ll figure it out….
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
There’s another solution, does the genius math man know that? I have that answer, did anyone else have that answer?
40
I guessed it right too. So what’s the catch????
40, took me 4 minutes to figure out though.
how stupid do they think we are???
I got the right answer, but I didn’t get the point. I don’t feel any smarter. Time killer.
You didn’t get the point because there was no point. This was put out there by someone who was no phenom and who just put
a 1 + 1 math solution out there to pass time and try to create an Internet frenzy.
The answer can either be 40 or 31….
To get 31
1+4= 5
2+5= 12
3+6= 21
8+11= 31
The missing numbers are 7, 9, and 10. The answers go up by these numbers…
5 + (7) =12
12+ (9)= 21
21 +(10)= 31
You dumb.
Sandra dumb.jk lol all that writting when you can follow the template dieing at the person below with their paragraph of answers and missing numbers
Your brighter than most. Lol
You rude. Lol
“You didn’t get the point because there was no point.” Lmfao
It’s official, the planet is bored. We need a jolt.
You’re dope!
I guessed 40 my first try as well. I’m pretty good at these kinds of tests
4×1+1=5
2×5+2=12
3×6+3=21
So I thought
8×11=88+8 would equal 96
?????
Auntie who cares ?
My answer was clearly explained and examples were given…you obviously needed small group instruction in school.
I did it!! Lol
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I did it.
Math is logic.
The original questions said 1 in 1,000 can guess the two answers. So, if you only guessed one, you are not that one. The answer is 96 or 40. That is why the original riddle said there were two possible answers. So it is not correct to say that the answer is just 40. I’m just saying…
The answer is 96!!!!
Which was my point lolo
LMAO! This tickled me too much
Turns out im dumb too. 96 i did not see coming only 40
I got 40 I cant figure out how yall got 96. please break it down for me.
Def and easier way! LOL. Thank you!
I got 96
The answer is not 40. It’s 96.
It’s not asking us what is 14 + 26. It’s asking what’s 8 + 11.
There are two conclusions you can draw based on the SEQUENCE of the first 3 statements.
THE FIRST CONCLUSION: For each line (on the addition side) you add one to each value on the following statement. Starting at 1 + 4 …the next line is 2 + 5 …the next is 3 + 6 [keep going, because this same pattern leads to 8 + 11]. {4 + 7}, {5 + 8}, {6 + 9}, {7 + 10}, and finally {8 + 11}.
THE SECOND CONCLUSION: When you divide (the number to the right of the = sign), by (the first number on the addition side), the result also goes up sequentially, by 1.
where 1 + 4 = 5 { 5 / 1 = 5 }
where 2 + 5 = 12 {12 / 2 = 6}
where 3 + 6 = 21 {21 / 3 = 7}
…now that you have 2 working sequences that apply to math logic, keep going until you get to 8 + 11:
The answer to 4 + 7, will have to be the number that you can divide by 4 to get “8” as a result (to continue the sequence) “32”.
where 4 + 7 = 32 {32 / 4 = 8}
where 5 + 8 = 45 {45 / 5 = 9}
where 6 + 9 = 60 {60 / 6 = 10}
where 7 + 10 = 77 {77 / 7 = 11}
..and finally,
where 8 + 11 = 96 {96 / 8 = 12}
You’ve missed something in the way you’re looking at it. I’m trying to figure out how you developed this. The answer is 96. The thing that’s wrong with your 31 answer, is you’re following a pattern where 5 (plus the addition table in the following line) + 7 = 12 …then 12 (plus the next addition table) + 9 = 21 …………but then you broke the pattern. Where do you get “10” to add to “21” to make it equal “31”?
8 + 11 = 19
I posted the solution above.
You were right. The answer is 96.
????? ya be going in on mfs but cant do simple math… That why ya so mad…the slow mf always angry… Called math…og math. Binary … All the left plus all the right equals all the numbers ?
Math lesson …we were taught in school about numbers n digits.. digits is Latin for fingers..that’s how they counted wheras Egyptians used this system. So if u got this wrong them pasty face chalky casper the ghost poof cracka be gone scaley skin like dried up rolled glue less than melanin Poppin n the sun folks done got u…. I’m a day late but a MF never a dollar short ???
It’s 96 it’s 8 x 12=96 they are multiplying the number after it.
I’m not with the 40 crew. “8 + 11” is not a random number. If the objective was to get a running total, “8 + 11” wouldn’t follow the sequence of the addition side of the first 3 statements. It would also be pointless for the first 3 statements to be in sequence.
If I were a teacher, I wouldn’t fail the 40s, but that was an easy way out. Analyze the data.
96
it can be 40 OR 96…depending on HOW you process the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM1NNRNmZ6c
Oh I thought you said joint…my bad?
Vertical 2 unrelated mathematical questions then adding the sum of the 2. Kind of like how conspiracy theorist add birthdays or certain numbers then break down the total to support their theory example 9/11 or New World Order theories. Leaves out the carry the # we hv been taught. I think they just wanted a post to go viral attention seeking.
96?
Math is not my strong suit, either. Lol
That would probably work too. Bored and mellow.
These folk is multiplying…Lol. I got 40 as well
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40 they are adding the answer to prior equation to the next question 21 + 8 + 11 no multiplication at all!
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Its when a person loves to have sex and will get it by any means… just like a crack or some kind of habit.
I don’t think people realize that this is one of those questions that allows for multiple solutions based on right brain/left brain thinking. I looked at all the numbers being added in each equation to find that the numbers 7,9 and 10 aren’t being added. However, the product of every line goes up by these numbers.
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