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Post: # 182,229
View Profile Craven de Kere
 
Reply Fri 18 Apr, 2003 07:25 pm
Ask someone to add this seemingly simple list.

It must be done quickly.

1000



+ 40



+1000



+30



+1000



+20




+1000




+10













It has to be done quickly because the thousands must count upward quickly. When the 10 comes they forget where the nine is. Most answer 5000 while the answer is 4100


Add the numbers quickly yourself, then test a colleague.
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Post: # 194,057
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Reply Thu 1 May, 2003 12:26 am
Try this one on your friends.
Result verified. That's brilliant and in fact I did think 5000 as you said.
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Post: # 196,051
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Reply Fri 2 May, 2003 07:18 pm
He he, try it on your friends.
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Post: # 196,053
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Reply Fri 2 May, 2003 07:19 pm
eeyep, I got 5k.
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Post: # 196,055
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Reply Fri 2 May, 2003 07:21 pm
Smegger gets me every time...
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Reply Mon 30 Jun, 2003 08:09 am
Very Happy, I've seen this type of questions before...got me the first time, but didn't get me there Razz (at least I know i've learnt something from my reading of magazines while waiting for the doctor)
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Post: # 262,464
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Reply Tue 1 Jul, 2003 01:49 pm
I got 5000, i was ending with 4900 and instead of adding 10 i accidentally added 100, but i got it right!
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Post: # 262,524
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Reply Tue 1 Jul, 2003 02:33 pm
I got it right.
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Post: # 262,526
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Reply Tue 1 Jul, 2003 02:34 pm
Psssst Slappy...

5000 is wrong, you know? Just checking.
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Post: # 262,568
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Reply Tue 1 Jul, 2003 03:07 pm
Yup. Got 4100. And I did it pretty quickly.

WERD.
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Post: # 262,741
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Reply Tue 1 Jul, 2003 05:36 pm
Craven ~ you're not gonna believe this, but Dougy answered with 5000, too! He told me to ask you to please forgive him!

P. S. Actually had to write the problem down for him before he'd believe he was wrong. He's a genius, but too smart for his own good sometimes!
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Post: # 262,743
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Reply Tue 1 Jul, 2003 05:39 pm
He he, anyone can fall for it. Our brains beg us to think it's 5000.
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Post: # 262,761
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Reply Tue 1 Jul, 2003 05:48 pm
I think what bugged him most is that YOU asked the question and he got it wrong! (Four times, but who's counting.....)
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Reply Mon 18 Aug, 2003 08:33 am
hey! the answer is 4100.
(1000+1000+1000+1000
+40+30+20+10)
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Post: # 320,736
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Reply Mon 18 Aug, 2003 05:26 pm
5k for me 2
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Post: # 320,738
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Reply Mon 18 Aug, 2003 05:34 pm
I got 4,100, but I was a bean counter in my past life. Wink c.i.
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 11:27 am
i got 5000 too, but i can't even balance my check book!!!
i suck at math!
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Post: # 330,771
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 12:15 pm
I got 4100 and pretty quick....4 groups of 1000=4000, then the extra 100 was pretty easy to figure out.
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Post: # 330,777
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Reply Mon 25 Aug, 2003 12:20 pm
Ask me to count by 13s though, I'm smegged Laughing
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Post: # 333,705
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Reply Wed 27 Aug, 2003 09:36 am
thats fantastic. Caught me out.
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