Math Trick
Filed under: Personal
Sep
1
2007
From someone at a message board that you wouldn’t know about.
It takes less than a minute. Work this out as you read.
Be sure you don’t read the bottom until you’ve worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, it’s fun.
- Pick the number of times a week that you would like to go out to eat.
(more than once but less than 10). - Multiply this number by 2.
- Add 5.
- Multiply it by 50.
- If you have already had your birthday this year add 1757…
If you haven’t, add 1756. - Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.
You should have a three digit number.
The first digit of this was your original number. (How many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week.)
The next two numbers are your age!
This is the only year (2007) that it will work. So spread the word.
12 Comments
LOL, I think that there’s one for every year… LOL…
Yeah, it’s definitely not for 2007 only, I got the same thing by email a few years ago, except it used the number of times a week you’d like to eat chocolate, not go out to eat, and had some different numbers. But the trick is still cool
Haha wow that was nice.
I like those math tricks. They’re pretty simple to see how they work but still amusing to do. =]
For some reason, this freaks me out so much. The power of maths!
I’ve seen one of these before, but they are fun to do.
Ahh. I was lied to. lol
I tried it (again, like every other time I see the same math trick in my mailbox) and of course it worked again
It’s a nice trick but you already know that it’s not only for this year eh…
Cool. I like little games like this.
Wow, that’s neat! I love little math tricks like this.
Thanks for sharing it.
that was fun i liked it
thanks for sharing!
Hmm, didn’t work for me.
Maybe I’m not as good at math as I used to be.
OMG it worked! Awesome
Thanks for sharing this.