Braingle: 'Calculate' Brain Teaser

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Puzzle ID:	#38985
Fun:	(1.79)
Difficulty:	(2.03)
Category:	Trick
Submitted By:	Panther91
Corrected By:	Fire_Shell96

Solve this problem. First calculate 100 + 50. Next, divide your answer by five. Finally, add 4 to your number. What would the number be?

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al111 Oct 28, 2007	It was alright But u didnt u te right vocabulary when u said add 4 to your answer you should ave said now add on 4
lukeschett Oct 28, 2007	It was very good.
jasmin215 Oct 28, 2007	i dont get it. what was MY number? it is either 300, 336, or 426.... those werent my numbers...
bookworm91 Oct 28, 2007	Hmmm.. will someone explain this, please?
Panther91 Oct 28, 2007	At first I was going to say "Add a 4," but then the answer might have been too obvious then. And jasmin215, I was asking you to add a 4 anywhere in the number instead of increasing the number by 4. Hope that clears any confusion...
bookworm91 Oct 28, 2007	OOOHH I sure am dull!! Haha, yes that makes sense now. Nice one!
jasmin215 Oct 29, 2007	no, i still dont get it but okay very cute
bookworm91 Oct 29, 2007	Jasmine, you should have gotten 30 for your answer. Then, you were supposed to add a four, not actually add it to the sum, but just add it on to the number. So it would be 30 + 4 = 304, 340, or 430. Get it? Just put a four on the number.
jzthebomb Oct 29, 2007	Good teaser!
1smart_okie Oct 30, 2007	I don't get it!
dudebomb93 Oct 31, 2007	I don't get it either
shenqiang Nov 01, 2007	I think that this teaser need a change. If "add 4" can be understood differently, then so can "100+50" and "divide by five". This teaser will have many more possible answers.
cheesepie Nov 14, 2007	Guys think about it. There used to be a trick at my school. The kids would come up and say, "What's 2+2?" And they'd get you to say 4. And they said the anwser was 22. Don't think of them as numbers, but letters. like num+ber=number 30+4=304
Tongue-Twister Nov 16, 2007	I don't quite get it, to be honest .
jjj055 Nov 18, 2007
Smart_Alex Nov 21, 2007	Ah, I get it. You have to put in a 4 to your sum, NOT ADD as in 30 + 4. Pretty good.
preppygirl Nov 22, 2007	i was thinking it was a trick cuz it was an expression. boy im a moron
mercedes13 Nov 23, 2007	this is so ****ing retarded
aango Nov 24, 2007	Well, I had a trick answer. 7.14159... You said add four to yuor number, not the solution, so my number was pi! It makes sense.
zeepuzzlemaster Nov 25, 2007	except pi is 3 .14159 And it could go either way...
dachshund2k3 Nov 28, 2007	it should say "add a 4" that would still make it kind of tricky but clear up confusion to the answer
smartsandsoccer Dec 16, 2007	I don't get what was so hard about that..... you just had to add the number 4 to your number which would be 304.
MAvanzi Dec 25, 2007	The Answer should be 34 but you made it has if you mean put the 4 in the answer
974999gec Dec 25, 2007	ha! i didn't get it, but now i do! lol
kashby Dec 26, 2007	didnt get it
fishhooky Jan 02, 2008	If you interpret 'add 4' as 'position the symbol representing four somewhere amongst the symbols representing the number thirty' then you should really also apply this to dividing 150 by 5, thus, the answer should be 41550, 14550, 15450, 15540 or 15504.
savannahlz9 Jan 31, 2008	The answer could also be a quarter
Wa11E Sep 23, 2008	Understand your thinking, but not on board with your answer. that is placing a foour adding implies a mathamatical operator. IMOP that is
Cindzey Nov 04, 2008	the answer could ALSO be 34.
Elios Nov 12, 2008	That gets a grimace. Still, I admit I am well and truly tricked!
gottalovetacsc Nov 30, 2008	Hmm.. It was ok. I think it should have different wording.
ObamaGirl Jan 24, 2009	What? I'm confuzzled
rstuckmaier Mar 14, 2009	If 30 + 4 is 304, etc. Then shouldn't 100 + 50 be 10050? Then my number is 20104.
Lord_Hawk Sep 28, 2009	I think that there is a lack of consistency with the vocabulary used in the trick.
MusiK Dec 26, 2009	oh I get it now smacks head
Gwendalla Sep 17, 2011	I thought it was 30, because that WAS MY NUMBER!
Benjiboo Nov 19, 2011	my answer was 114