Comments on: Can you solve this? https://wordlesstech.com/can-you-solve-this/ The future today in our amazing world Wed, 01 Feb 2017 17:58:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michaele Jordan https://wordlesstech.com/can-you-solve-this/#comment-6386 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 20:23:09 +0000 http://wordlesstech.com/?p=130955#comment-6386 No. The first line shows us that a horse is worth 10 (3 horses = 30)
The second line shows us that a PAIR of horseshoes is worth 4 (a horse, 10 + 2 pairs of horseshoes =18)
The third line shows that a PAIR of boots = 2 (1 pair of horseshoes, 4, – 1 pair of boots = 2)

But lines two and three both deal in pairs. No value has been explicitly assigned to a single horseshoe, or a single boot, but since the pairs consist of identical objects, we can deduce that a single horseshoe has half the value of a pair of horseshoes, and similarly a single boot has half the value of a pair of boots.

Line fours shows only 1 boot (half of 2) plus 1 horse (10) times only one horseshoe (half of 4)
So 1 + 10 x 2.

I see above that the equation should be read 1 + (10 x 2). I read it (1 + 10) X 2. But looking up PEMDAS it does say that multiplication outranks arithmetic, rather than simply working left to right as I was taught (or at least allowed) as a kid.

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