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I can't figure out the answer to this riddle! It's driving me insane! 
Take the colors of the rainbow, and multiply by three.
Subtract from that past tense of eat, it's easy as can be.
Now add a three-digit number, a synonym for "sick",
Add three more; divide it by the corners on a brick.
What number am I?
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Re: Can someone help me with this riddle?
« Reply #1 on: Apr 6th, 2003, 10:59am » |
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7 times 3 = 21
21 - 8 = 14
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Then i dont no 
It mite b totally wrong but it is a start. 
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Re: Can someone help me with this riddle?
« Reply #2 on: Apr 6th, 2003, 11:14am » |
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(7 x 3 - 8 + 111 + 3)/8 = 16
Of course some say that there are only 6 colors in a rainbow (red orange yellow green blue violet), but that does not leave you with a number divisible by 8.
Alternatively, you can say that there are an infinite number of colors in the rainbow, so the answer is infinity!
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Re: Can someone help me with this riddle?
« Reply #3 on: Apr 6th, 2003, 11:46am » |
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hmmmm. My calculator absolutely insists that 21 - 8 = 13 and
7 x 3 - 8 + 111 + 3 = 127.
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Re: Can someone help me with this riddle?
« Reply #4 on: Apr 6th, 2003, 8:27pm » |
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Well, obviously as a mathematician, any thing I say about numbers is by definition correct. You are just going to have to get rid of that defective calculator! 
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« Reply #5 on: Apr 6th, 2003, 8:47pm » |
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WOW! Thanks!  I kept getting 62 because I kept finding the answer (like 7x3=21) then going on to the next part. I guess it works better if you don't do that! lol Thanks for your help Icarus! Now I can sleep better tonight!
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Re: Can someone help me with this riddle?
« Reply #6 on: Apr 6th, 2003, 9:01pm » |
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If you can't bedazzle them with brilliance - baffle them with BS. That's my motto!
111 = "ILL" by the way. Either this is not what the poser intended, or the poser also goofed on the math, or the answer is not an integer!
If the latter is true, then either of 15 1/2, or 15 7/8 is the answer (depending on counting 6 or 7 colors in the rainbow).
On the other hand, infinity still works as well! The rainbow is actually a spectrum, with infinitely many colors in it.
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Re: Can someone help me with this riddle?
« Reply #7 on: Apr 6th, 2003, 11:53pm » |
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on Apr 6th, 2003, 8:27pm, Icarus wrote:| Well, obviously as a mathematician, any thing I say about numbers is by definition correct. You are just going to have to get rid of that defective calculator! |
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I gave it a stern talking to and it is currently writing out lines on the blackboard at Springfield Elementary as a punishment:
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« Reply #8 on: Apr 7th, 2003, 10:50am » |
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Your nice to your calculator!
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« Reply #9 on: Apr 7th, 2003, 12:25pm » |
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16 is NOT the answer!  See, in my guild, we have a riddle contest, and the person who runs it has given 2 hints:
1) It's a whole number
2) The number is under 30
I guessed 16 like you said, and she said, "No, but very close." So I guessed 15 since that's pretty close.. but I'll post the answer when she tells what it is. 
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« Reply #10 on: Apr 8th, 2003, 10:43am » |
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Working backwords and assuming we correctly interpret 8 and 111, we see that for the answer to be whole in the range they ask for, it must be 11 + 3n where n=1,2,3,4,5,6.
Thus, she says that the rainbow has -6+8n colors.
So, does anyone know of way of classifying visible light into 10 different colors? (ans of 17)
My guess is she screwed up.
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« Reply #11 on: Apr 8th, 2003, 11:29am » |
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I got 15.75 too, but is a whole number is required, maybe the key is in "add three more" -- 3 more of what?
If you add "3 more" of what you got so far, you get 62. Is it "close" to 16? I don't know. What is your range??
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« Reply #12 on: Apr 12th, 2003, 7:55am » |
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"Add 3 more". She said try adding the denomination of 3. What?
The range is- a whole number between 16-30
Order of operations doesn't seem to work either. I asked her if she typed it right and she said she did. It's been up for 2 weeks and I don't think she's going to change it until someone gets it right!
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« Reply #13 on: Apr 12th, 2003, 8:49am » |
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Perhaps 3 more means 3 more 1's or a Roman 3, 111. If you go back and take only 6 colors for the rainbow, as Icarus suggested, then ((6*3)-8+111+111)/8=29
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Re: Can someone help me with this riddle?
« Reply #14 on: Apr 12th, 2003, 2:21pm » |
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perhaps the trouble is in "ill". I think that is the correct answer, but perhaps we are inerpreting it wrong. Maybe she means it as a roman numeral ILL. Of course, that is not the proper method of writing a roman numeral.
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« Reply #15 on: Apr 14th, 2003, 6:42am » |
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The answer is between 15-20. I'll keep trying to figure it out, and I WILL post the answer when I figure it out!
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« Reply #16 on: Apr 14th, 2003, 9:05pm » |
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How do you know the answer is between 15 and 20? Did this person tell you that?
My theories:
1) Start assuming there are six rainbow colors. 6x3=18
Subrtract 8 to get 10.
"ILL" (which we may all be incorrectly assuming is the word) could be 99. (IL is a stupid 49, so ILL is a stupid 99, which is a REALLY stupid 099). 10+099=109
Add 3 to get 112. 112/8=14 So my best guess is 14.
2) Perhaps some parts of the equation are not use. For example, the past tense of "eat" is "ate". However, while "ate" sounds like "eight", the word "ate" itself is not a number and therefore cannot be used in a mathematical equation.
3) Some mentioned classifying rainbow light into 10 colors. It is possible: InfaRed, Pink, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, UltraViolet
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Re: Can someone help me with this riddle?
« Reply #17 on: Apr 15th, 2003, 4:07pm » |
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I have no problem with them calling ILL three digits, it is three roman digits. My problem is that that is the incorrect way to write the number. I the the riddler was FOS.
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Re: Can someone help me with this riddle?
« Reply #18 on: Apr 15th, 2003, 6:11pm » |
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I still say there are infinitely many colors in the rainbow, therefore the answer has to be infinity, regardless of the what the rest of it means!
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« Reply #19 on: Apr 15th, 2003, 6:20pm » |
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What if by corners, it meant edges? Then instead of dividing by 8 you'd be dividing by 12. Just a thought.
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« Reply #20 on: Apr 20th, 2003, 8:06am » |
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I asked her if she typed the riddle correctly and she said, "Yes". Then she said that someone got it right and the answer was on the page where the riddle contest is held. I re-read it, and guess what? She changed ONE little part that makes a HUGE difference! The riddle now reads:
Take the colors of the rainbow, and multiply by three.
Subtract from that past tense of eat, it's easy as can be.
Now add a three-digit number, a synonym for " 'ick",
Add three more; divide it by the corners on a brick.
What number am I?
See that 'ick part? It used to be "sick"! Hmm.. big difference there! Anyway, the answer is 20. It just makes me mad that I tried and tried and that one part was wrong! No wonder why no one could figure it out for 3 weeks... 
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« Reply #21 on: Apr 20th, 2003, 9:11am » |
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Eww, gross.
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Re: Can someone help me with this riddle?
« Reply #22 on: Apr 20th, 2003, 2:58pm » |
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sorry, I still don't get it 
In what way is 144 a synonym for 'ick?
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« Reply #23 on: Apr 21st, 2003, 4:43am » |
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on Apr 20th, 2003, 2:58pm, jade wrote:sorry, I still don't get it
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144 is a gross.
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Re: Can someone help me with this riddle?
« Reply #24 on: Apr 21st, 2003, 4:48am » |
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“ick” is a sound of disgust, as is “gross”. But gross is also 144.
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