+Ziggy85 “Ziggmanster” Gaming Actually the fur is clear. It is the light reflecting off it that makes it appear white in the same way that sugar and salt appear white but are actually clear.
+Ziggy85 Gaming “Ziggmanster” So fur is not a part of the polar bear? and the polar bears aren't ALL black, because apart of their white fur on the inside they are all light red almost pink...
Question 4: ( 2:39 ) is incorrect. It is not actually white - it just looks that way. Each hair shaft is pigment-free and transparent with a hollow core that scatters and reflects visible light, much like what happens with ice and snow.
Moses went into an Ark of papyrus when he was an infant. He was put in the ark and launched on the Nile river. Hence, the name Moses ... drawn from water.
Michael Stewart I guess that question was too tricky for you, so I'll give you another one: If Jarrid has 5 apples and Dominic has 4, how many plane tickets did the porcupine buy ?
The first two questions' answers are incorrect. The first question lacks 'at least', such as was capitalised in the answer, as such it means that the month has 28 days, not at least 28 days. The correct answer is therefore one month: February. The second sentence is non-sensical due to it being grammatically incorrect. Now there are two ways in which this grammatical error can be resolved, and it is by playing on these two that the joke is made, however, this still means that it is an invalid question. P.S. For those interested, here are the two ways the grammatical error can be resolved. 1. The first way is to assume that one of the words is incorrect, in this case 'by', and replacing it with the correct word, in this case 'in'. This substitution results in the following equation: 30 ÷ 2 + 10 = 25 2. The second method of resolving the grammatical error is by assuming that a word is missing from the phrase, in this case the determiner 'a'. By adding in the missing word the following equation is created: 30 ÷ 0.5 + 10 = 70 There is a third option commonly created by the unbased and false assumption that the phrase means to divide by half of the subject's value. It is likely that this asumption is a false conclusion based on the syntactic similarity between the phrases "reduce by half" and "divide by half". As stated, this is however a false equivalence because, whilst the phrase "reduce by half" is grammatically correct and legitimate, the phrase "divide by half" is grammatically incorrect and illegitimate.
I take complete exception to the first question. I've seen that one before and each time I say the same thing... The question states that "others have 30 days" - not *_AT LEAST_* 30 days! The question is *_NOT_* "How many months have *_at least_* 28 days?" The question is "How many months have 28 days?" The answer to that is - *_"ONE"._* This is not a trick question at all; but rather a flaming example of how words can be twisted around to match someone's own agenda.
But to say that only one month has 28 days implies that the rest don't. I do agree that the wording is definitely rubbish, especially since it makes the distinction between having 31 days versus 30, but I view this question as being ambiguous and able to be answered either way.
+Yosen B. Mamma Ok? I don't see why you seem to be so worked up over this. Like I said, I agree with you. Calm down, kiddo, it's not you against the world.
Btw question 2 could be taken in compleatly different context & is not correct usage of the language of mathematical. Technically the answer should be 12, not 70 & most certainly not 25. In math half does not mean .5. Usually it's in reference to a number, so divide 30 by half would = 30/15 not .5. You could have half represent .5 by adding "of a number" after half, but then you would have to change 30 to thirty because you can't have numbers in English & numerical form! I can see how you would trick someone into thinking of dividing 30 "in" half but technically I think I proved I'm smarter than this video by showing how 30 should clearly be divided by 15 according to the rules of mathematics.
I am sorry for I caused some inconvinience but I thought it would be a little expansion to actually explain words. Also, I think mostly multiple answers help.
+Igal Spektor No Igal Spektor your wrong. In mathematics the word half is in representation to a value. If you said half of a number than half = .5 but because the question was raised divide 30 by half than half clearly is represented by the number 30! If I say what's half of 2 do you say 1 or 25% because .5 of 2 is = to 1/4th. Think about the logical argument I'm trying to make here before just dismissing everything I have to say.
+baseball 24 Keep your vapid insults to yourself. It doesn't say "divide by one half" it says "Divide by half" "Divide by one and a half" clarifies the unit, "by half" does not. Yes I already know 30÷.5 +10=70 but it unknown if that's the problem.
+ZEUS O. ...It's word play mathematics! The correct answer is ... wait for it... wait for it... is not 12! ya that's right! Not 12!!... 30÷ (in) half) is 15 so 30÷15=2+10=12 but... 30÷ (by) half) is .5 Sooo 30÷.5=60+10=70! :) hope that helps!!
It's amazing how many people can't understand the math one. They continue to justify their wrong answers, simply because they did not understand the question. Then continue to argue, even though they are dead wrong. It's like trying to explain something to a small child.
I got the first and second one with no problem but I have no idea how since I suck at trick questions and riddles. I can't believe people don't understand it since the guy who posted the video even typed out the freaking problem and put it in the video.
#2 is incorrect. Dividing 30 by half would be 30/15. Dividing 30 by one half or a half would be 30/0.5. The question's actual answer would be 12. EDIT: Because so many people are replying with the same incorrect explanation that the video uses (I did understand it the first time I saw it, thanks), I'm going to copy/paste my reply up here for people to read before they reply: [The video] does not say "a half", it says "by half". Half means either of two corresponding parts into which something can be divided. Half does NOT equal 0.5 automatically. Ergo, if the question does not specifically state "one half" or "a half", then half can only refer to the only number that is mentioned, which is 30. Because half of 30 is 15, and you are dividing "by half", then you must divide 30 by 15. It is okay if you don't understand, the wording here can be very confusing. The problem is, it is a trick question that relies on confusing wording, but it uses the wrong wording itself (to get the answer it was aiming for).
+Dylan Colbert if all 4 walls were perfectly at the most northern part of the north pole, technically all would be facing south. what other one did you not understand.
I'll be nice... A lot of women think men are always wrong -- no matter what. So John's "riddle" is a mixture of that fact and the old saying, "If a tree falls in the woods...".
Exactly; half is indeed a function. In fractions, 'half' is always defined as x/2. x = the value. half = the denominator of 2. 0.5 is not just any half.. Its just half of 1.
Oh I assumed the match was already lit and that's how I could see an oil lamp, oil heater and candle in a room with no other light source. It all makes so much sense now, I was wondering why I'd been unexpectedly shut in a sparsely furnished dungeon with a lit match...
Well I'm an Atheist, and Noah and the Ark exist as stories. Imagine the question was about Superman and Metropolis, and his reply was "Wrong! Those things don't exist!" An answer to a question about a fictional work isn't wrong because it's a fictional work.
+RumbleOfDrums I disagree.. they didn't say HALF OF 1... divide 30 by half, grammatically would be to divide 30 by half, or 15, would be 2 + 10 = 12. half is subjective to interpretation.. 30 was the subject so therefore it would be assumed that half would refer to 30. 1 is not a baseline number.. This is a poorly phrased question , but how ever, the answer isn't 70... the author got their own question wrong.
+RumbleOfDrums I disagree.. they didn't say HALF OF 1... divide 30 by half, grammatically would be to divide 30 by half, or 15, would be 2 + 10 = 12. half is subjective to interpretation.. 30 was the subject so therefore it would be assumed that half would refer to 30. 1 is not a baseline number.. This is a poorly phrased question , but how ever, the answer isn't 70... the author got their own question wrong.
+MNBootboy you're not accounting for authorial authority. you can argue the author is a poor writer but if they originate the puzzle and say "half" = 0.5 then it must.
+Tumod incorrect. as the saying goes, you're entitled to your own opinions however you're not entitled to your facts. just because they're the author doesn't mean that he can be thinking .5 in hisbhesd doesn't mean the structure of his writing matches. as written, divided by half assumes the subject of the statement which is still 15... English plays supreme here, not his or her mind.
if you divide 30 IN half you get 15. You divide 30 by half and that is still 60. The only way to divide 30 by a specific number to get to 15 is to divide it by two.
Drakijy "One half" is a number. "A half" is a number. "1/2" is a number. "0.5" is a number. If you divide 30 by any of those numbers you will get 60. "Half", absent a numerator, is a concept not a number. "By half" does not specify a divisor, but a concept, and that concept is divide by two. Therefore when you divide by half you divide by two. Compare third (or fifth or 87th). You don't say "divide by third", you say "divide by a third" or "divide by one third". "Third" by itself is not a number, and unlike "half" does not have the conceptual sense. The trick question needs a number not a concept.
ok so for #2... "divide 30 by half" really means "to take 30 and divvy it up among half as many..." which is to say... 30/15 so the answer to #2 "divide 30 by half and add 10" is really 12... not 70... english can be very confusing at times.
Half is a number. It's a fraction. To divide by a fraction you multiply by the reciprocal, which is reversing the numerator and the denominator. Hence, 30 divided by 1/2 = 30 x 2 = 60. Plus 10 = 70. Or you convert it to a decimal which is 0.5. 30 divided by 0.5 = 60. Did you skip 4th grade?
Ken Klasser Sadly I think most people here have skipped more than just 4th grade... I love it when people use words they don't understand and then mispronounce it or in this case misspell it 'function' instead of 'fraction'...
arianefr78 ...That wasn't a typo. Half is a function, not a fraction. "Half" does not have a value, like I said, "half" and 0.5 are not the same thing. "Half" describes a function which returns half the value of the input. The fact that you can get half the value of a number by multiplying by 0.5 does not mean that 0.5 is equal to half.
Anyone who got white for number four was wrong: "Fur. Polar bears' fur consists of a dense, insulating underfur topped by guard hairs of various lengths. It is not actually white-it just looks that way. Each hair shaft is pigment-free and transparent with a hollow core that scatters and reflects visible light, much like what happens with ice and snow. Polar bears look whitest when they are clean and in high angle sunlight, especially just after the molt period, which usually begins in spring and is complete by late summer. Before molting, accumulated oils in their fur from the seals they eat can make them look yellow. Skin. Polar bears have black skin under which there is a layer of fat that can measure up to 4.5 inches (11.5 centimeters) thick." www.polarbearsinternational.org/about-polar-bears/essentials/fur-and-skin My score was 5/5. Whoever made this only got 4/5, unfortunately. Sorry video creator. Also number 2 was ambiguous. Saying "divide by half" could be interpreted as meaning divide by 1/2 or divide into halves. Both interpretations are valid in common usage.
Joshua Moyer Haha gotcha. I've been pondering this though, white should still be a correct answer. Yes, their fur is clear and reflects the snow around them, but everything we see is a reflection of the light waves bouncing off of objects anyway. Then again, if you take a polar bear out of the snow their fur should reflect a different color... hmm...
I find it interesting how each of us interpreted the questions. Even those who got the answer "wrong" had legitimate and, dare I say, logical reasons for what they came up with. Therefore, to simplify my life, I'm using "47" as the answer to all future trick questions. After all, it's a good round number!
Half itself does not alone hold specificity, as it is not a true numeric value; therefore, when left alone, it must be taken in relative context. As a result, dividing thirty by simply "half" must imply the division of half of thirty, because that is the only true numeric value in context. I did love the match one, though, I got a kick out of that one - really easy to figure out, but once you do xD
Question 2: answer according to creator is wrong due to the question; it said to divide 30 by half then add by ten, answer it said was 70 because 30 divided by 0.5 is 60 then adding ten is 70, although the equation he did is correct, the answer is asking a different question, it is asking to divide 30 by half, half is 15 in this case so then 30 divided by 15 then add 10, so the answer would be 12 according to information given
+Peter Beal did you get the first one right? the video gets it wrong. without specifying the gregorian calendar we have no way of knowing how many months there are, or how many days those months consist of. All we know is that some last 30 days and some last 31, so the answer could be any number between 1 and infinity.
squid'n and kid'n only because you didn't get doesn't mean he didn't. It is a maths question worded in a way to trick you. Once you see past the trick, it's simple division/multiplication and addition
Incorrect. Merriam-Webster definition of half: (noun) one of two equal or nearly equal parts into which something can be divided. One of two is represented mathematically as 1/2. To divide 30 by 1/2, you have to multiply it times the reciprocal, which is 2. 30 x 2 = 60. 60 + 10 = 70. #2 is correct in the video.
+Morgan Mitchell ye I thought the same... The one with the match could also be that you can't light anything because u got one match and nothing else, so u don't even have the package to light the match -.-
@morgan mitchell nope. the question is worded properly. people who get it wrong are dividing IN half, not BY half. it should not say divide by one half, because the "one" is redundant
No definitive proof either way. Can we all just agree that everyone is entitled to have their own belief system so long as it does not directly harm anyone?
Half could be .5. Half could be 6. Half could be 5. You understand what I mean? When you say by half it could really mean any factor times 2 to get a product. In this case, .5 is half of 1, but when it says divide a number in half, it usually means divide by 2. Half means into 2 pieces; not divide by .5
HonkeyHero18 Half could be 5 because half of 10 is 5. Half could be 6 because half of 12 is 6. See? Half means 1/2 or one of two equal parts. This could be a valid trick questions seeing how half could mean any number that is one part of two equal parts.
Nakura Renshi you said yourself that half is 1/2. when you reduce 5/10 or 6/12 down (like you said) you always get 1/2. what is the decimal number representation of this? it is 0.5.
uʍopǝpᴉsdn sᴉ ǝɯɐu ʎɯ I know but the fraction for half gives you a different product when multiplied by 30 than .5, so it can still be a trick question. 30/1 × 1/2 = 15 30 × .5 = 60 And I actually didn't notice this until I actually thought about it lol.
I was too busy correcting the capitalization on the last one to answer it. Why is Ark capitalized, but moses isn't? Also, didnt didn't have an apostrophe.
+EpicMinecraftSkills There was also a space missing between AT and LEAST on one answer. If you're trying to look smart you should at least get your spelling a grammar right.
+Alwin Wiederhold I think you meant to say 'spelling AND grammar' didn't you? You were too busy trying to look smart yourself to notice that I suppose.
+kingoftaurus I think he was quoting the video, so maybe he should have said "didnt" didn't have an apostrophe, but I don't think that one was a mistake.
How do you know? There's actually a ton of scientific evidence that proves that there was a flood. So before you start saying it didn't happen because you're high school teacher told you it didn't happen, why don't you go see if they're actually right or not.
+Micah Opseth I can 100% guarantee it didn't happen. No ship of that size could be built using methods of those days without twisting apart in waves. Additionally, how did animals from all continents of the world manage to get onto a boat in the middle east? And, what did they eat while they we're on the Ark? They would need vegetation for the herbivores AND more herbivores for the carnivores. Anything large enough to fit all of that would be big enough to see from space.
The second i didn't say 25 i said 12. I was thinking is divide half of 30 (otherwise 15) by 30. you cant say half is 0.5 without saying what number your halving. You cant just assume half means half of 1
Yep. And when people want to argue, I say if you have 30 apples/oranges/pears (whatever) and divide each of them in half, how many halves do you have? 60.
PLEASE, PEOPLE, STOP! THIS MATH QUESTION IS MAKING ME LOSE BRAIN CELLS! The term "half" is a RATIO, meaning .5 or 50% of a GIVEN VALUE. The value of 1 is not given AT ALL in this problem, so where do you get the value of .5 from? There's only one given value in this problem-30-and the ratio "half" should be applied to that value. In this case it would mean 30/15=2, 2+10=12. But FFS dude, HALF DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN 0.5! Sorry for my salt, but so many people are calling the people who got 12 idiots when 12 is a better answer than 70
rising bull ''sigh'' white is not a color of it's own, it's the mix of all colors. Saying their skin absorb all colors except white is just stupid. That's A. B, classifying the color of something by which color it absorb is ridiculous. A orange is every color except orange? Grass is every color except green? I think You're the one who should go take a science class, no offense.
Rebecca Branigan Close, but not quite it. Their skin is actually black, but yes their fur is transparent. animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/polar-bear/ www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/polarbear.html. My first link though claim that they have ''white fur'' but probably they meant that in the same way someone would say snow is white, even though it's composed of transparent crystals.
Jaiveon Watts what do you mean by "one of those people", do we have someone who would think lily of another based off of their religious beliefs? I guess you are one of "those" people.
Stop trying to justify your wrong answers and stop trying to manipulate the question to justify your wrong answers. It's simple; if you didn't get 70, you're wrong.
Ok, even though the story of Noah and his Ark may be in the bible, it is completely plausible. A man named Noah could have round up two of every animal and put them on a big boat, even if there was no God to create the Earth.
+Spencer Reed It would not be plausible. He would never in his life time be able to gather up two of every single animal. He just would not have the time to do it. Or the money or everything.
Also, polar bear fur isn't white, it is clear. The light just refracts when it passes through the hairs to make it seem like its white, similar to snow.
its sad when I have watched 3 of these and already found one that every question was on a different one. I guess we just can't come up with original riddles any more.
Question Number 6. If you are in a rowboat that has nothing but cigarettes, how do you light one of them? You throw one cigarette overboard, making the boat.... one cigarette lighter (notice the pun). Question Number 7. How many golf balls fit into a standard school bus? One fewer than the number that won't fit.
Saw thumbnail, infuriated at the idea that you would say half and knew the trick would be haha, i meant 1 half when actually, no it doesn't. Half doesn't mean anything with out a reference, because .5 is half of 1. The answer could just as easily be 12, because 30 divided by half (half, half of what? half of the only number we were given so far?) is 30 divided by 15 plus 10 At first I didn't quite understand the platonic dialogues, but "clever" shit like this is why plato despised the sophists..
A house at the North Pole makes little sense because the ice is unstable. Besides, the North Pole is too far from the seals that polar bears prey upon.
hmmph, leave it to those round-earth fanatics to come up w that north pole question. Tbh, a couple I guessed right and made sense to me- but sum were just bs, using wordplay rather than logic. Like the "30 divided by half"- I thought by half of What? Half of itself? But I feel their answer was incorrect because, at least as I was taught, .5 is referred to as "one half", I've never heard any math problem where it's referred to as just "half". I know this was supposed to be simply a fun little video- but the logistics behind two of the questions only pissed me off.
If all 4 walls have southern exposure, than the only place the house could be is where all points outward are south, i.e. the north pole. The only bears that inhabit that region are polar bears, and they are white, for purposes of camouflage.
Well guess what polar bear question? Polar bears aren't white,they're black that fur is just hollow black tubes. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL SMARTS FOR THE WIN!!
Polar bears may be black, but they *appear* white. Something can be green, but it it appears blue, it will be described and labeled as blue. The fact that they are black is a technicality. The only way to describe what color a polar bear is if you see it is to say, "That bear is white." So what if he's technically black. He looks white so he is white for all practical purposes.
You got me on the last one, as usual I'm looking for the logic and miss the obvious. To everyone who's argued the math question here it is, divide 30 by a half, 30 divided by 1/2 = 30/1 divided by 1/2, when dividing fractions you simply invert the divisor, the one doing the dividing, then multiply. So 30/1 divided by 1/2 becomes 30/1 x 2/1 = 60/1 =60, then add 10 as per the question and you get 70. It's a math question and there is no other argument, except that it is a math question and not a trick question at all.
+Olivia Kaye I believe there very well could be a god, but sources such as the Torah, the bible, the Quaran, and many others have proven time and time again to be inaccurate, impossible, plagiarized, and contradictory.
The first question's answer does not match the premise. "If some days have 31, but OTHERS have 30" directly implies that OTHERS is not part of SOME since SOME should contain all others since all months that have 31 days also have 30 days. So "If some day have 31 and some have 30 days" would be one way to rephrase which would then support the answer.
The first question should be one because it said " Some months have 31 days while others have 30...." which means they either have EXACTLY 31 or 30 days. Then it says "How many months have 28 days?" Meaning EXACTLY 28 days not at least 28 days. Also February can also have 29 days if it is a leap year so in that case it would be 0.
***** Well, if you look at the wording of the riddle, it says that "some months have 31 days, *but other months* have 30 days" which implies that the riddle is referring to an *EXACT* number of days, not any number of days equal to or less that the total number of days in that month.
***** "Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days." But the months which have 31 days have also at least 30 days, so this are not "others", this are the same months. But when the months with 30 days have to be other months as the months with 31 days, as the question suggests, so it is explicitly asked for the months with EXACTLY 28 days, not AT LEAST.
North, South, East and West are cartographic concepts. It is a cartographical impossibility to build a house where all the walls face South. Unless you can contain the entire house on a single point then the walls will have direction. There are stacks of other reasons to. If you want to ask a trick question at least make it accurate.
Buttrumhouseofchaos Yeah, that's not really true. To begin with there is more than 1 North Pole. So first they need to establish which North Pole you are at and then guess what, you can still head North to another North Pole. This is not just about True, Grid and Magnetic North either, depending on the projection and datum used the North Pole can move a considerable distance. Additionally the North Pole (magnetic) is not a static place, it moves, hence the Polar Wandering Curve. If memory serves it's somewhere out towards Greenland at the moment. Also, cartographically the North Pole is a point. That means as you get closer to it its area diminishes, it's essentially a physical impossibility to stand completely on the North Pole, as part of your body will be off it, therefore you have direction. Too, all directions from the North Pole are simply not South, it is entirely possible to step off the North Pole (which you aren't really on anyway) and head, say East. Even if we disregard that and assume that all directions are South then there is an inherent problem as the wall has a length. If we take the position that the centre of the wall is due South from the North Pole then what directions are the corners of the wall, logically they cannot be due South, one will be South Westerly, and the other South Easterly.
PEOPLE! Don't start attacking people because they came up with a different math answer than you. Its that type of thing that is wrong with this world. :(
@C Apt Its not correcting people that is the problem, its trying to embarrass, shame or insult them in some way. It is possible to correct a mistake without being rude.
#2 answer should be 12. Half is not a numeric value. You asked to divide 30 by half. Half of 30 is 15. Therefore, 30/15=2 and 2 + 10 = 12
divide 30 by 1/2= 60 30/(1/2)= 30 x2
Half = 1/2. Divide x by 2: x/2. Divide x by half: x/.5
+TStorm 03 Im a kid and I was literally thinking the same thing! lol
+TStorm 03 that just makes it easier to visualize. there are 60 ".5"s in 30.
I totally agree. It did not state ONE half. Half of 30 is 15.
Fun Fact: Polar Bears are actually all black. The only white part is their fur.
+Ziggy85 “Ziggmanster” Gaming Actually the fur is clear. It is the light reflecting off it that makes it appear white in the same way that sugar and salt appear white but are actually clear.
Their fur is actually transparent
+Ziggy85 “Ziggmanster” Gaming Smart alecks for the win!
+Ziggy85 “Ziggmanster” Gaming ...So,...Polar bears built the pyramids too?
+Ziggy85 Gaming “Ziggmanster” So fur is not a part of the polar bear? and the polar bears aren't ALL black, because apart of their white fur on the inside they are all light red almost pink...
Question 4: ( 2:39 ) is incorrect. It is not actually white - it just looks that way. Each hair shaft is pigment-free and transparent with a hollow core that scatters and reflects visible light, much like what happens with ice and snow.
That's... Actually really cool. Thank you for sharing.
Really, you had to go full scientist on us
Dude, its ok, the video is shit anyway, you don't need to beat it to death.
he's not being scientific he's referring to what the eye sees
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Actually, Moses DID have an Ark, just not with animals. The Ark of the Covenant.
XD
Moses went into an Ark of papyrus when he was an infant. He was put in the ark and launched on the Nile river. Hence, the name Moses ... drawn from water.
I got 6 out of 5 right.
Lmao
Makes no sense vottoduder
+Brandon Douglas lol that's the point
+Kevin Moser oh
your the smartest
I've got a trick question for you.
If Ryan has 63 grapefruits, and his bus is 7 minutes late.. calculate the mass of the sun
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Tyran - Edits Nope sorry Its 6.999
Wait what?...
Michael Stewart I guess that question was too tricky for you, so I'll give you another one:
If Jarrid has 5 apples and Dominic has 4, how many plane tickets did the porcupine buy ?
+2016 NASCAR Crashes & Finish's 20
"You have 30 seconds to answer each question
*Pauses video*
The first two questions' answers are incorrect. The first question lacks 'at least', such as was capitalised in the answer, as such it means that the month has 28 days, not at least 28 days. The correct answer is therefore one month: February.
The second sentence is non-sensical due to it being grammatically incorrect.
Now there are two ways in which this grammatical error can be resolved, and it is by playing on these two that the joke is made, however, this still means that it is an invalid question.
P.S. For those interested, here are the two ways the grammatical error can be resolved.
1. The first way is to assume that one of the words is incorrect, in this case 'by', and replacing it with the correct word, in this case 'in'. This substitution results in the following equation:
30 ÷ 2 + 10 = 25
2. The second method of resolving the grammatical error is by assuming that a word is missing from the phrase, in this case the determiner 'a'. By adding in the missing word the following equation is created:
30 ÷ 0.5 + 10 = 70
There is a third option commonly created by the unbased and false assumption that the phrase means to divide by half of the subject's value. It is likely that this asumption is a false conclusion based on the syntactic similarity between the phrases "reduce by half" and "divide by half". As stated, this is however a false equivalence because, whilst the phrase "reduce by half" is grammatically correct and legitimate, the phrase "divide by half" is grammatically incorrect and illegitimate.
But on the first one it didn't say only 28 days.
I taught Maths for years....the answer is correct
@@gideonroos1188 As I explained ...the answer is correct
@@rippi37 the issue is an english error not a mathematical one
@@blackwolf7019 groovy
I take complete exception to the first question. I've seen that one before and each time I say the same thing...
The question states that "others have 30 days" - not *_AT LEAST_* 30 days!
The question is *_NOT_* "How many months have *_at least_* 28 days?"
The question is "How many months have 28 days?"
The answer to that is - *_"ONE"._*
This is not a trick question at all; but rather a flaming example of how words can be twisted around to match someone's own agenda.
Thank you
Completely true
But to say that only one month has 28 days implies that the rest don't. I do agree that the wording is definitely rubbish, especially since it makes the distinction between having 31 days versus 30, but I view this question as being ambiguous and able to be answered either way.
If *their* answer can imply *_"at least"_*, then *my* answer can imply *_"no more than"_*. The door is swinging both ways.
+Yosen B. Mamma Ok? I don't see why you seem to be so worked up over this. Like I said, I agree with you. Calm down, kiddo, it's not you against the world.
Btw question 2 could be taken in compleatly different context & is not correct usage of the language of mathematical. Technically the answer should be 12, not 70 & most certainly not 25. In math half does not mean .5. Usually it's in reference to a number, so divide 30 by half would = 30/15 not .5. You could have half represent .5 by adding "of a number" after half, but then you would have to change 30 to thirty because you can't have numbers in English & numerical form! I can see how you would trick someone into thinking of dividing 30 "in" half but technically I think I proved I'm smarter than this video by showing how 30 should clearly be divided by 15 according to the rules of mathematics.
You are wrong, it doesn't say IT'S half, it says just half. and half is clearly 1/2 which is 0.5
+Igal Spektor And if it said divide it by IT'S half, it would mean 30/(30*0.5), and it uses 0.5 which is half.
I am sorry for I caused some inconvinience but I thought it would be a little expansion to actually explain words. Also, I think mostly multiple answers help.
+Thomas The Vegan Yes 30/.5 = 60. I don't think you understood my point at all.
+Igal Spektor No Igal Spektor your wrong. In mathematics the word half is in representation to a value. If you said half of a number than half = .5 but because the question was raised divide 30 by half than half clearly is represented by the number 30! If I say what's half of 2 do you say 1 or 25% because .5 of 2 is = to 1/4th. Think about the logical argument I'm trying to make here before just dismissing everything I have to say.
Since when is poor grammer a tricky math problem.
Half of what?
+baseball 24 Keep your vapid insults to yourself. It doesn't say "divide by one half" it says "Divide by half" "Divide by one and a half" clarifies the unit, "by half" does not. Yes I already know 30÷.5 +10=70 but it unknown if that's the problem.
+ZEUS O. ...It's word play mathematics! The correct answer is ... wait for it... wait for it... is not 12! ya that's right! Not 12!!... 30÷ (in) half) is 15 so 30÷15=2+10=12
but... 30÷ (by) half) is .5 Sooo 30÷.5=60+10=70! :) hope that helps!!
Daisy Henri , Thanks, now I know you're an illiterate dumb ass with very poor reading comprehension.
Think of it as a math problem dumbass.
since the time you learned how to spell words correctly.
It's amazing how many people can't understand the math one. They continue to justify their wrong answers, simply because they did not understand the question. Then continue to argue, even though they are dead wrong. It's like trying to explain something to a small child.
4 out of 3 people don't understand fractions.
That's way over one hundred percent isn't it?
I got the first and second one with no problem but I have no idea how since I suck at trick questions and riddles. I can't believe people don't understand it since the guy who posted the video even typed out the freaking problem and put it in the video.
half doesn't mean anything. I got it right, but half of what? one half? half of 5? It's just stupid, not an actual test of knowledge
grassroot011 Yes, it's a joke poking fun at the ignorance about numerator and denominator.
am I the only one that was like, how did this get on my feed
i was wondering the same thing
Same here lool
That's a trick question.
same
Same
#2 is incorrect. Dividing 30 by half would be 30/15. Dividing 30 by one half or a half would be 30/0.5. The question's actual answer would be 12.
EDIT: Because so many people are replying with the same incorrect explanation that the video uses (I did understand it the first time I saw it, thanks), I'm going to copy/paste my reply up here for people to read before they reply:
[The video] does not say "a half", it says "by half". Half means either of two corresponding parts into which something can be divided. Half does NOT equal 0.5 automatically. Ergo, if the question does not specifically state "one half" or "a half", then half can only refer to the only number that is mentioned, which is 30. Because half of 30 is 15, and you are dividing "by half", then you must divide 30 by 15.
It is okay if you don't understand, the wording here can be very confusing. The problem is, it is a trick question that relies on confusing wording, but it uses the wrong wording itself (to get the answer it was aiming for).
Agreed
Agreed
Lol I just realized
Yep that's what u got
that's what i got omg
What the I only got the last one right but the 30 divided by half one didn't make sense I thought it was 12
30 divided by 0.5 = 60. Add 10 and you get 70.
I Also thought 12
ya it was ½ if you divide 30 and ½ it =30÷½=30×2
yes, 70
Yup me too
Most these are not even real trick questions they just flat out don't make any sense
They made sense to me and a lot of other people. Looks like you were tricked which is pretty tricky for a question that isn't a real trick question.
+Dave Burrows No, two of them were flat out wrong. This person sucks at math and geography.
they all make perfect sense provide better examples of what you had a hard time with
+Dylan Colbert if all 4 walls were perfectly at the most northern part of the north pole, technically all would be facing south. what other one did you not understand.
Zidzyz All he said was that they were facing to the north, not the north pole.
"If a man talks in a forest and there are no women around to hear him, is he still wrong?"
yes.
I don't get it?
I'll be nice... A lot of women think men are always wrong -- no matter what. So John's "riddle" is a mixture of that fact and the old saying, "If a tree falls in the woods...".
LMAO Of course he's still wrong. lol
+rayner1399 so the cracking and the really loud thud don't count as a sound in this question? I actually wanna know, never really understood this one.
For anyone who got 2 as 25 you're right. A half is a function. If you divide by a half you really divide by 2.
Exactly; half is indeed a function. In fractions, 'half' is always defined as x/2. x = the value. half = the denominator of 2. 0.5 is not just any half.. Its just half of 1.
***** Thank you because this is basic high school algebra.
Raging karma Wut, I learned this in 2nd grade, though I suppose you're right. This is indeed basic Middle-school and high-school algebra.
I think the trick is, dividing by a half is not the same as dividing in half
billy butt half is still a function of that takes place by 2 when dividing.
Oh I assumed the match was already lit and that's how I could see an oil lamp, oil heater and candle in a room with no other light source. It all makes so much sense now, I was wondering why I'd been unexpectedly shut in a sparsely furnished dungeon with a lit match...
The last question is wrong, there wasn't an ark or noah
I am praying for you
Well I'm an Atheist, and Noah and the Ark exist as stories. Imagine the question was about Superman and Metropolis, and his reply was "Wrong! Those things don't exist!" An answer to a question about a fictional work isn't wrong because it's a fictional work.
+Dickie Bell I respect that, I'm just saying that I was praying for him, and now you
***** because I'm not a believer?
Randal griffice praying doesn't do anything
These are not tricky questions but poorly formulated questions. Technically it's called "semantic equivalentes misuse".
+RumbleOfDrums I disagree.. they didn't say HALF OF 1... divide 30 by half, grammatically would be to divide 30 by half, or 15, would be 2 + 10 = 12. half is subjective to interpretation.. 30 was the subject so therefore it would be assumed that half would refer to 30. 1 is not a baseline number.. This is a poorly phrased question , but how ever, the answer isn't 70... the author got their own question wrong.
+RumbleOfDrums I disagree.. they didn't say HALF OF 1... divide 30 by half, grammatically would be to divide 30 by half, or 15, would be 2 + 10 = 12. half is subjective to interpretation.. 30 was the subject so therefore it would be assumed that half would refer to 30. 1 is not a baseline number.. This is a poorly phrased question , but how ever, the answer isn't 70... the author got their own question wrong.
It would make more sense if they said, 30 divided by one half
+MNBootboy you're not accounting for authorial authority. you can argue the author is a poor writer but if they originate the puzzle and say "half" = 0.5 then it must.
+Tumod incorrect. as the saying goes, you're entitled to your own opinions however you're not entitled to your facts. just because they're the author doesn't mean that he can be thinking .5 in hisbhesd doesn't mean the structure of his writing matches. as written, divided by half assumes the subject of the statement which is still 15... English plays supreme here, not his or her mind.
Divide 30 by one half is 60. Divide 30 by half is 15. A subtle distinction. That close to the pole you would not see a polar bear.
if you divide 30 IN half you get 15. You divide 30 by half and that is still 60. The only way to divide 30 by a specific number to get to 15 is to divide it by two.
Drakijy "One half" is a number. "A half" is a number. "1/2" is a number. "0.5" is a number. If you divide 30 by any of those numbers you will get 60. "Half", absent a numerator, is a concept not a number. "By half" does not specify a divisor, but a concept, and that concept is divide by two. Therefore when you divide by half you divide by two.
Compare third (or fifth or 87th). You don't say "divide by third", you say "divide by a third" or "divide by one third". "Third" by itself is not a number, and unlike "half" does not have the conceptual sense.
The trick question needs a number not a concept.
yes and even if you did the bear is not white it just appears to be because of the reflection of the snow, which is white.
i dont know ask google
The question should have been phrased better, as it is, it doesn't make sense.
1. All of them
2. 70
3. The match
4. Bear colour
5. None, Moses didn't have an ark.
Wow, I got all of them correct!
Last one wasn't fair, he didn't capitalize the name!!!
ok so for #2... "divide 30 by half" really means "to take 30 and divvy it up among half as many..."
which is to say... 30/15
so the answer to #2 "divide 30 by half and add 10" is really 12... not 70...
english can be very confusing at times.
"half" is not equal to 0.5. Half isn't a number, it's a function, the result of which being the original number divided by two.
Half is a number. It's a fraction. To divide by a fraction you multiply by the reciprocal, which is reversing the numerator and the denominator. Hence, 30 divided by 1/2 = 30 x 2 = 60. Plus 10 = 70. Or you convert it to a decimal which is 0.5. 30 divided by 0.5 = 60. Did you skip 4th grade?
Ken Klasser
Sadly I think most people here have skipped more than just 4th grade... I love it when people use words they don't understand and then mispronounce it or in this case misspell it 'function' instead of 'fraction'...
arianefr78 seems like you missed grade 4 English if you think they misspelled fraction as function.
arianefr78 ...That wasn't a typo. Half is a function, not a fraction. "Half" does not have a value, like I said, "half" and 0.5 are not the same thing. "Half" describes a function which returns half the value of the input. The fact that you can get half the value of a number by multiplying by 0.5 does not mean that 0.5 is equal to half.
TBonerton Lol get wrecked :D
Will everyone stop bitching about question 5? We all have different beliefs and we should respect one another for them.
That is pretty much the most sensible thing I have read this week.
Well that makes a lot of sense to me too
I got them all right all 5/5 suck it yyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh
Thank you.
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The people complaining about how the questions are written are hilarious. It's a trick question...that's the fuckin point
Anyone who got white for number four was wrong:
"Fur. Polar bears' fur consists of a dense, insulating underfur topped by guard hairs of various lengths. It is not actually white-it just looks that way.
Each hair shaft is pigment-free and transparent with a hollow core that scatters and reflects visible light, much like what happens with ice and snow.
Polar bears look whitest when they are clean and in high angle sunlight, especially just after the molt period, which usually begins in spring and is complete by late summer. Before molting, accumulated oils in their fur from the seals they eat can make them look yellow.
Skin. Polar bears have black skin under which there is a layer of fat that can measure up to 4.5 inches (11.5 centimeters) thick."
www.polarbearsinternational.org/about-polar-bears/essentials/fur-and-skin
My score was 5/5. Whoever made this only got 4/5, unfortunately. Sorry video creator.
Also number 2 was ambiguous. Saying "divide by half" could be interpreted as meaning divide by 1/2 or divide into halves. Both interpretations are valid in common usage.
Joshua Moyer So exactly what color did you say the bear was?
KingInky13 Clear Fur, black skin
Joshua Moyer Haha gotcha. I've been pondering this though, white should still be a correct answer. Yes, their fur is clear and reflects the snow around them, but everything we see is a reflection of the light waves bouncing off of objects anyway. Then again, if you take a polar bear out of the snow their fur should reflect a different color... hmm...
KingInky13 lol good point. I guess it's debateable
Stop bringing science into it!!
I find it interesting how each of us interpreted the questions. Even those who got the answer "wrong" had legitimate and, dare I say, logical reasons for what they came up with. Therefore, to simplify my life, I'm using "47" as the answer to all future trick questions. After all, it's a good round number!
I got all 5. Isn't it great the way some people only comment if they're able to try and make you look like an idiot? Personally, I liked it :)
That Noah's ark one almost got me!
Half itself does not alone hold specificity, as it is not a true numeric value; therefore, when left alone, it must be taken in relative context. As a result, dividing thirty by simply "half" must imply the division of half of thirty, because that is the only true numeric value in context.
I did love the match one, though, I got a kick out of that one - really easy to figure out, but once you do xD
If I hit the pause button I have more than 30 seconds.
cheat lmao
I did that too lol 😅
Haxxor
Cheaters lol
If it took you more than half a second to answer any of those questions, this thing is way over your head.
I got them all correct................
Pierre TTR same
Number 2 is incorrect, 30 divided by half of 30 is 15 and 15x2= 30 so it would be 2. 2+10= 12
Jordyn Piggieson wrong
Jordyn Piggieson but it's asking 30/0.5 not 30/half of thirty
No, the answer is 70. 30÷1/2 converts to 30/1×2/1, which is 60. 60+10=70. Not a hard question
IM IN FOURTH GRADE AND I HAVE TWO OF THE HIGHEST ACEDEMIC TEACHERS IN THE USA OK
Your teachers are high? What are they high on? Weed? PCP? Acid?
Followup: The polar bear then ate the man who built the house, so what was the point of building the house?
lol
to see the color of the polar bear
Just to say he built a house? Still a very dumb reason to build a house.
Because he's Santa?
I used to live inside the Arctic Circle. I've seen polar bears up close. They're very big. A hungry polar bear would eat the house, too.
Question 2: answer according to creator is wrong due to the question; it said to divide 30 by half then add by ten, answer it said was 70 because 30 divided by 0.5 is 60 then adding ten is 70, although the equation he did is correct, the answer is asking a different question, it is asking to divide 30 by half, half is 15 in this case so then 30 divided by 15 then add 10, so the answer would be 12 according to information given
That is just what i thought as well!
Got that too dude, this video also had to be made by like a nine year old, he/she spelled color wrong.
No, he spelt it right and how old are you?
What country are you from?
Garrett Gold the person is Canadian because we spell it colour not color
ItsThatGuy He or she could also be british :)
*clears throat*
I got them all right
*waits for butthurt people*
I got them all
Clears throat
Here's a cookie buddy
Clears throat
Sorry throats been itchy all day
PLEZ HELP MAH ASS IS HURTING
I got 1/5 because I don't get some of the questions
I got all right; I've heard them before.
I know right I think this person copied it
Same!
I've heard all except the match one on other CZcams videos
+Peter Beal did you get the first one right? the video gets it wrong.
without specifying the gregorian calendar we have no way of knowing how many months there are, or how many days those months consist of. All we know is that some last 30 days and some last 31, so the answer could be any number between 1 and infinity.
+Liana Mao or this video was made in 2007
Max Roderick yes I think I did
I actually got the 2nd one right
why you always lying
squid'n and kid'n only because you didn't get doesn't mean he didn't. It is a maths question worded in a way to trick you. Once you see past the trick, it's simple division/multiplication and addition
+Graveyard151 I did get it
I was just joking
I hate it when people take joke's to seriously :/
+Graveyard151 but I understand that you might not have known
squid'n and kid'n my bad. Didn't get the joke
I agree wit Ricky Ostrom. Question #2 is the only one I missed.
That last one was real slick
"Divide by half" isn't "divide by 1/2" ... see I can be pedantic too.
Exactly. No wonder lots of people get it wrong when they don't word the question properly. They should really have said "divide by *one* half."
Incorrect. Merriam-Webster definition of half: (noun) one of two equal or nearly equal parts into which something can be divided. One of two is represented mathematically as 1/2. To divide 30 by 1/2, you have to multiply it times the reciprocal, which is 2. 30 x 2 = 60. 60 + 10 = 70. #2 is correct in the video.
+Morgan Mitchell ye I thought the same... The one with the match could also be that you can't light anything because u got one match and nothing else, so u don't even have the package to light the match -.-
You're wrong. Most people are dividing in half, not by half. The question is worded correctly.
@morgan mitchell
nope. the question is worded properly. people who get it wrong are dividing IN half, not BY half. it should not say divide by one half, because the "one" is redundant
the last one should be 0, it's a fucking fairy tale
God does exist how do you suppose u came about
+Jahmir Jenkins no proof :)
You are 100% Correct the story is nonsense
the irony is the answer was 0
No definitive proof either way. Can we all just agree that everyone is entitled to have their own belief system so long as it does not directly harm anyone?
5 remedial questions.
Nice.
This was 9 years ago, who's watching in 2016?
Half could be .5. Half could be 6. Half could be 5. You understand what I mean? When you say by half it could really mean any factor times 2 to get a product. In this case, .5 is half of 1, but when it says divide a number in half, it usually means divide by 2. Half means into 2 pieces; not divide by .5
Yah but he said divide it BY half, not divide it IN half. So that was a valid trick question.
HonkeyHero18
Half could be 5 because half of 10 is 5. Half could be 6 because half of 12 is 6. See? Half means 1/2 or one of two equal parts. This could be a valid trick questions seeing how half could mean any number that is one part of two equal parts.
You know what I meant though.
Nakura Renshi you said yourself that half is 1/2. when you reduce 5/10 or 6/12 down (like you said) you always get 1/2. what is the decimal number representation of this? it is 0.5.
uʍopǝpᴉsdn sᴉ ǝɯɐu ʎɯ I know but the fraction for half gives you a different product when multiplied by 30 than .5, so it can still be a trick question.
30/1 × 1/2 = 15
30 × .5 = 60
And I actually didn't notice this until I actually thought about it lol.
if you dont ask the question right nobody is going to answer it right.
For number 2. On paper work 30 / (1/2)
+Jorgan Morgan™ that's how you should think of it... When you divide be a fraction, you are essentially multiplying by the fraction's reciprocal
Exactly.
Its true divide 30 by half is 60, you should understand the statement.. In our mind must be 30's half
5N1P3R A1M3R he didnt say that it was the 30s half eather it could have been a total random number.
Half=x
100%=Y
!?!?
you cant do shit XD
i got all of them. This was actually surprisingly easy.
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who like binary, and those who don't.
I got 4 right.
I got the match question wrong.
Thought you would light the candle first then use it to light other things.
Logical.
Yea but how would you light the candle without the match dumbass
well what last the longest the match or the candle. dumbass
+MrRobFTW your a dumbass
+Kprusoe21 you're*
Why explain yourself
I got em all right! :D
me to
+Alan Crawford Noice
Same
Me too, but I guessed on the one about the bear and got it right somehow.
i got em all
[1] all of them
[2] 12 since I'm a dumbass
[3] match
[4] white
[5] none
Nav Narula i got 12 too lol
Nav Narula howdyu get 12?
15 is half of 30 and 15 can only go into 30 twice and ylu get 2 add 10 = 12
ruby beard half 30 by half of it which is 15, that makes 2, 10 plus 2 is 12... therefore... the answer is twelve...
pureben9 gameing and vlogs divide by half means divide by 0.5
OMG! I love this! I only got one right, but this is hilarious!
Heard all of these before, so got them all correct.
Hey, I know you. :)
heard all of these before, so i got them all wrong
you should be proud
+Blahblah Bluhbluh I'm with you on that one
yes me to I also heard all these and got them right
I was too busy correcting the capitalization on the last one to answer it. Why is Ark capitalized, but moses isn't? Also, didnt didn't have an apostrophe.
+EpicMinecraftSkills There was also a space missing between AT and LEAST on one answer. If you're trying to look smart you should at least get your spelling a grammar right.
+Alwin Wiederhold I think you meant to say 'spelling AND grammar' didn't you? You were too busy trying to look smart yourself to notice that I suppose.
+Addictive Drawings In his own comment, he forgot to spell "too" correctly and forgot an apostrophe in the first "didn't".
+kingoftaurus I think he was quoting the video, so maybe he should have said "didnt" didn't have an apostrophe, but I don't think that one was a mistake.
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I only heard number 3 before, and I got them all right.
What would you light first?
Me: the room
Well, you know, the North Pole is underwater, so the bear would drown and you would drown and your house would be torn apart by the currents.
the north pole is underwater...wtf. it's not Atlantis stupid, it's the north pole. there are miles and miles of glaciers and frozen ocean
Not if he's just talking about the magnetic point, not the location.
That made me laugh aloud.
Good work.
Stupid much?
I love how this video is 9 years old and people still notice it
the ark one is correct as the answer is none........because it literally didn't happen!!
lol
Keep telling yourself that
+Ryan Hillblom it couldn't have happened
How do you know? There's actually a ton of scientific evidence that proves that there was a flood. So before you start saying it didn't happen because you're high school teacher told you it didn't happen, why don't you go see if they're actually right or not.
+Micah Opseth I can 100% guarantee it didn't happen. No ship of that size could be built using methods of those days without twisting apart in waves. Additionally, how did animals from all continents of the world manage to get onto a boat in the middle east? And, what did they eat while they we're on the Ark? They would need vegetation for the herbivores AND more herbivores for the carnivores. Anything large enough to fit all of that would be big enough to see from space.
nice video
5 out of 5. Cute questions. Quite entertaining, tho.
The second i didn't say 25 i said 12. I was thinking is divide half of 30 (otherwise 15) by 30. you cant say half is 0.5 without saying what number your halving. You cant just assume half means half of 1
wrong. This is a first grade stuff. a half by itself is always assumed is .5. when no other information is given...ALWAYS
No, it's not first grade stuff. It's third/fourth grade stuff.
Anyway, it does make sense
Half= 1/2
30 divided by 1/2
30/1 divided by 1/2
30/1 X 2/1
=
60/1
Simplified
=
60
+10
=
70
Yep. And when people want to argue, I say if you have 30 apples/oranges/pears (whatever) and divide each of them in half, how many halves do you have? 60.
PLEASE, PEOPLE, STOP! THIS MATH QUESTION IS MAKING ME LOSE BRAIN CELLS! The term "half" is a RATIO, meaning .5 or 50% of a GIVEN VALUE. The value of 1 is not given AT ALL in this problem, so where do you get the value of .5 from? There's only one given value in this problem-30-and the ratio "half" should be applied to that value. In this case it would mean 30/15=2, 2+10=12.
But FFS dude, HALF DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN 0.5!
Sorry for my salt, but so many people are calling the people who got 12 idiots when 12 is a better answer than 70
Polar bears are technically brown, but their fur reflects light to make it appear white in almost all circumstances.
No polar bears are white and their fur is transparent
Rebecca Branigan
no their skin absorbs all other colors except white. Try going to science class, no offense
rising bull
''sigh'' white is not a color of it's own, it's the mix of all colors. Saying their skin absorb all colors except white is just stupid. That's A. B, classifying the color of something by which color it absorb is ridiculous. A orange is every color except orange? Grass is every color except green? I think You're the one who should go take a science class, no offense.
Rebecca Branigan
Close, but not quite it. Their skin is actually black, but yes their fur is transparent. animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/polar-bear/ www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/polarbear.html. My first link though claim that they have ''white fur'' but probably they meant that in the same way someone would say snow is white, even though it's composed of transparent crystals.
The trick questions, I got all of them right.
too bad he didn't realise it only happens on a calculator.
Polar bears are not white. Hell, look at the damn picture!
Then what are they?
I'm supposed to be white, but I'm not quite!
+Alice Zhang under all that white fur, they are black!
+Dennis Mullins but they said FUR! Wait... I'm confused
Polar bear fur is not white ._.
The answer to #5 was none.
There never was an ark
o there was.
Oh, you're one of those people
Chris Toromanović Yes he said that -_- Noah did.
Jaiveon Watts what do you mean by "one of those people", do we have someone who would think lily of another based off of their religious beliefs? I guess you are one of "those" people.
Atheists Rule!
Those were ridiculously easy.
Stop trying to justify your wrong answers and stop trying to manipulate the question to justify your wrong answers. It's simple; if you didn't get 70, you're wrong.
The first answer was so easy I didn't bother to listen to the rest
There was nothing you could hear besides the BGM ;)
+PsstImAFanOf That's because you were supposed to read each question, DUH! You do know how to read, don't you?
Well, I got the first one right at least....thanks for the self esteem boost.
+2dronetek2 I also got the number 1 right
Didnt get 2 and 4
I got 3 out of 5 btw I'm only 8
You didn't ask "how many months have AT LEAST 28 days?"
These aren't 5 'trick' questions so much as they're 5 incomplete questions.
As to the last one, it was Noah, but he DIDN'T take 2 of each. That was only the unclean animals. All others {including the birds} was 7 of each.
Question 5, even if it said Noah, the answer would be 0! Noah never existed...neither did Moses!
thank youuuuuuu
yeah!!!! thank youuu
Atheist
Ok, even though the story of Noah and his Ark may be in the bible, it is completely plausible. A man named Noah could have round up two of every animal and put them on a big boat, even if there was no God to create the Earth.
+Spencer Reed It would not be plausible. He would never in his life time be able to gather up two of every single animal. He just would not have the time to do it. Or the money or everything.
5/5, they were all pretty easy, I think people are just rushing it...
Only one that got me was Moses as his Ark. hahaha
Noah didn't take any animals on an ark... It's a fairy tale.
Polar Bears do not make it to the North Pole, but Santa does so that would make it a brown Teddy Bear.
santa is not real
clever!
Also, polar bear fur isn't white, it is clear. The light just refracts when it passes through the hairs to make it seem like its white, similar to snow.
there's no proven fact thet he doesn't exist... unless u've been 2 the north pole!
Staying up all night on christmas see your parents come from the basement with your gifts
its sad when I have watched 3 of these and already found one that every question was on a different one. I guess we just can't come up with original riddles any more.
So true.
Ikr
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Question Number 6. If you are in a rowboat that has nothing but cigarettes, how do you light one of them?
You throw one cigarette overboard, making the boat.... one cigarette lighter (notice the pun).
Question Number 7. How many golf balls fit into a standard school bus?
One fewer than the number that won't fit.
Saw thumbnail, infuriated at the idea that you would say half and knew the trick would be haha, i meant 1 half when actually, no it doesn't. Half doesn't mean anything with out a reference, because .5 is half of 1. The answer could just as easily be 12, because 30 divided by half (half, half of what? half of the only number we were given so far?) is 30 divided by 15 plus 10
At first I didn't quite understand the platonic dialogues, but "clever" shit like this is why plato despised the sophists..
The bear one didn't make sense.
A house at the North Pole makes little sense because the ice is unstable. Besides, the North Pole is too far from the seals that polar bears prey upon.
The house has 4 sides facing south.
+Account ABC If it's on the north pole, every direction if south
hmmph, leave it to those round-earth fanatics to come up w that north pole question. Tbh, a couple I guessed right and made sense to me- but sum were just bs, using wordplay rather than logic. Like the "30 divided by half"- I thought by half of What? Half of itself? But I feel their answer was incorrect because, at least as I was taught, .5 is referred to as "one half", I've never heard any math problem where it's referred to as just "half". I know this was supposed to be simply a fun little video- but the logistics behind two of the questions only pissed me off.
If all 4 walls have southern exposure, than the only place the house could be is where all points outward are south, i.e. the north pole. The only bears that inhabit that region are polar bears, and they are white, for purposes of camouflage.
Well guess what polar bear question? Polar bears aren't white,they're black that fur is just hollow black tubes. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL SMARTS FOR THE WIN!!
Who's a trick question now sucker lol no seriously how you not know that youtuber
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Polar bears may be black, but they *appear* white. Something can be green, but it it appears blue, it will be described and labeled as blue. The fact that they are black is a technicality. The only way to describe what color a polar bear is if you see it is to say, "That bear is white." So what if he's technically black. He looks white so he is white for all practical purposes.
I got them all. They really weren't hard, you just have to pay close attention to the wording.
You got me on the last one, as usual I'm looking for the logic and miss the obvious. To everyone who's argued the math question here it is, divide 30 by a half, 30 divided by 1/2 = 30/1 divided by 1/2, when dividing fractions you simply invert the divisor, the one doing the dividing, then multiply. So 30/1 divided by 1/2 becomes 30/1 x 2/1 = 60/1 =60, then add 10 as per the question and you get 70. It's a math question and there is no other argument, except that it is a math question and not a trick question at all.
Number 5: Neither did Noah, that entire story is plagiarized from other fictional stories.
Yeah I know, but it was worded as if it was factual.
+Collin Huggins do you believe
+Olivia Kaye I believe there very well could be a god, but sources such as the Torah, the bible, the Quaran, and many others have proven time and time again to be inaccurate, impossible, plagiarized, and contradictory.
+Collin Huggins ok
It cant have happened 'cause the earth hasn't been covered with water after humans came
am I the only one who thought you could just light your hair on fire?
btw questions one is a lie, not a trick question.
+Ducky duckgirl it is
can't light your hair on fire before you light the match
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You are right no month has 28 days they have more
He got the questions off of a card game that took a hole lot of thinking
The first question's answer does not match the premise. "If some days have 31, but OTHERS have 30" directly implies that OTHERS is not part of SOME since SOME should contain all others since all months that have 31 days also have 30 days. So "If some day have 31 and some have 30 days" would be one way to rephrase which would then support the answer.
The first question should be one because it said " Some months have 31 days while others have 30...." which means they either have EXACTLY 31 or 30 days. Then it says "How many months have 28 days?" Meaning EXACTLY 28 days not at least 28 days. Also February can also have 29 days if it is a leap year so in that case it would be 0.
Gaby Metayer No it doesn't. "Some months have 31 days", does not explicitly mean EXACTLY 31 days.
***** Well, if you look at the wording of the riddle, it says that "some months have 31 days, *but other months* have 30 days" which implies that the riddle is referring to an *EXACT* number of days, not any number of days equal to or less that the total number of days in that month.
I went into Tescos the other day and saw eight cans of beer. How many cans were there in Tescos that day? Eight?
3/4??? Which question are you talking about?
***** "Some months have 31 days, others have 30 days." But the months which have 31 days have also at least 30 days, so this are not "others", this are the same months. But when the months with 30 days have to be other months as the months with 31 days, as the question suggests, so it is explicitly asked for the months with EXACTLY 28 days, not AT LEAST.
North, South, East and West are cartographic concepts. It is a cartographical impossibility to build a house where all the walls face South. Unless you can contain the entire house on a single point then the walls will have direction. There are stacks of other reasons to. If you want to ask a trick question at least make it accurate.
When you stand at the North Pole all directions are South,
Buttrumhouseofchaos Yeah, that's not really true.
To begin with there is more than 1 North Pole. So first they need to establish which North Pole you are at and then guess what, you can still head North to another North Pole. This is not just about True, Grid and Magnetic North either, depending on the projection and datum used the North Pole can move a considerable distance. Additionally the North Pole (magnetic) is not a static place, it moves, hence the Polar Wandering Curve. If memory serves it's somewhere out towards Greenland at the moment.
Also, cartographically the North Pole is a point. That means as you get closer to it its area diminishes, it's essentially a physical impossibility to stand completely on the North Pole, as part of your body will be off it, therefore you have direction.
Too, all directions from the North Pole are simply not South, it is entirely possible to step off the North Pole (which you aren't really on anyway) and head, say East. Even if we disregard that and assume that all directions are South then there is an inherent problem as the wall has a length. If we take the position that the centre of the wall is due South from the North Pole then what directions are the corners of the wall, logically they cannot be due South, one will be South Westerly, and the other South Easterly.
CallmeMrFahrenheit OK, you are just so correct, ask for a refund. (good luck with that!)
100%, even with only having heard two before.
5, but intrigued. more, please.
All of them, 70, the match, white, and none. Yay, I got them all right!
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PEOPLE! Don't start attacking people because they came up with a different math answer than you. Its that type of thing that is wrong with this world. :(
exaclty. then the victims stop trying and just fail at school
Yes, and everyone has problems. Its part of what it is to be human. :)
Lets make America Dopey again and not correct anyone. That worked so well in past generations. Thats why I am voting for Tronald Dump!
@C Apt
Its not correcting people that is the problem, its trying to embarrass, shame or insult them in some way. It is possible to correct a mistake without being rude.
this is the internet and shaming people is the past time of cynics.
I got 2 lol. Bit annoyed with the bear one though...
You can't say the bear was white because it's a polar bear and polar bears are white. A bear is not white. Next time say a polar bear came along
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