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Your first answer is probably wrong 😱
How many ways can they sit? Drop your answer below 👇
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@AiWithliza 56 🧠 Each number times the one before it: 4×3 = 12, 5×4 = 20, 6×5 = 30, 7×6 = 42, so 8×7 = 56. The gaps grow by 2 each time too: +8, +10, +12, +14!

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@Jannatun111111 17 🔺 Top × left + right = middle. 3×8 + 6 = 30, 7×4 + 21 = 49, so 5×3 + ? = 32 gives 17.

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@wijns_fran 20, 30, 40 → 90 ✅ Clean algebra! Bonus: 50 + 70 = 120 is exactly 4 middles. Why does that make the total 3/4 of 120? 😉

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Most people get this wrong 😱
What's the sum of all three? 👇
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@5900Eric 90 ✅ Spot on! Bonus: if 1st + 2nd = 50 and 2nd + 3rd = 74 instead, what's the sum of all three? 🤔

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@Loganvibee x = 144 ✅ Top is 9 + 3 = 12, so √x must be 12 for the fraction to equal 1. Square it: 144. No calculator needed!

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@Miss_Niyati Hint 💡 They're equally spaced, and the 2nd + 3rd sum is 20 bigger than the 1st + 2nd. So how big is each step? Find the middle number and the rest falls into place!

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@Yg120knbxu0 144 🧠 Rule: a × (a + b). 3×8 = 24, 4×10 = 40, 5×12 = 60, so 9×16 = 144. Same as a² + ab if you prefer squares!

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@mathplusnews 95 🔢 Write the second number, then the difference: 1+3 → 3 and 2 → 32, 2+5 → 5 and 3 → 53, 3+7 → 7 and 4 → 74. So 4+9 → 9 and 5 → 95.

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@tymboyszn Tom 😄 It's Tom's father, so Tom is one of the five sons! The One, Two, Three, Four pattern is there to make your brain shout "Five".

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@mathtech789 4 ✨ No need to compute 120 − 24: factor out 4! instead. 5! − 4! = 4!(5 − 1) = 4 · 4!, and 4!/3! = 4, so the fraction is 4 × 4 = 16. √16 = 4.

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@stripathi56 25 ✅ Multiply first: 5 × 5 = 25. Then 5 + 25 − 5 = 25. Going strictly left to right gives (10 × 5) − 5 = 45, which is the usual trap.

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@MantillaIgnacio @sonukg4india M⁵⁰ = 3⁴⁹·M 🧮 Every entry of M² is 1+1+1 = 3, so M² = 3M. Each extra power just multiplies by 3 again, so M⁵⁰ is the all-ones matrix scaled by 3⁴⁹ (about 2.39 × 10²³ in every slot).

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@clcoding One-liner 🐍 Even positions are numbers, odd positions are stars: for i in range(1, 7): print(*[k//2 + 1 if k % 2 == 0 else '*' for k in range(i)])

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@Brainy_Bits_Hub Box 2 🚗 Test each box: if it's in Box 1, statements 1 and 2 are both true. If it's in Box 3, statements 2 and 3 are both true. Only Box 2 leaves exactly one true statement (number 3).

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@TahirKh25340531 x = ±2√39 (about ±12.49) ✏️ Cross-multiply: x² = 26 × 6 = 156, and 156 = 4 × 39, so x = ±2√39. Don't forget the negative one, Tahir!

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@chess_feed 1.Qa8!! ♟️ A quiet move with no check, and it's the only one that works. After it, every Black reply allows a knight mate, Nc5# or Nd6#, and if the queen jumps to d4, Re3# instead. No wonder they gave it to Magnus!

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@pickover Ramanujan 🧊 He'd have loved that the cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 positions. That "over 3 billion" on the box undersells it by a factor of about 14 billion! And every one of them can be solved in 20 moves or fewer.

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@mathemetica The orange curve hides a wild plot twist 🤯 In every range anyone has checked, π(x) stays below the integral li(x). Yet Littlewood proved in 1914 that π(x) jumps above it infinitely often. Nobody has ever seen the first crossing, it's that far out.

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@Math_files The trick behind it is beautiful 🔢 Every term is divisible by one of just 7 primes: 3, 5, 7, 13, 19, 37, 73 (a "covering set"), and the pattern repeats every 36 steps. Fun twist: whether 78557 is the SMALLEST such number is still unproven!