A man has three kids. The product of their ages is 36. The sum of their ages is the man's old apartment number. The youngest kid likes the color yellow. What are the kids' ages? And dont ask me what the apartment number or the color yellow have to do with anything cause I dont know... :shrug:
10, 12 and 14. It's easy because yellow is the colour of canaries, canaries are kept in cages... I'm sure you can follow the logic from there.
In which I'd say that the question isn't complete. I was lucky in that 10, 12 and 14 jumped straight into my head, but 32 and a pair of 2 year old twins is just as likely. Ach, PRODUCT, not sum. Slap me. Integer factors of 36 that add up to an apartment number. So how high do apartment numbers go? 3, 3 and 4. He lives at number 10. 1, 3 and 12 he lives at number 16. Any others? (Doing this in my head).
2, 3, and 6 and he would live at number 11. The problem is, I dont know how either of the other two clues have anything to do with the question. By the way, the question was posed by my psychology teacher, and its extra credit if I can figure it out. I dont know if the fact that its for a psychology class helps at all...
Ah, psychology... In which case it's about HOW you go through the process of arriving at an answer and how frustrated you get about/ quickly you realise that the information is incomplete. And how capable are you at filtering out extraneous (yellow?!? WTF? Ignore) information. Psychology - leave it alone dude it screws your mind up. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
i'll just give him (my teacher) a totally nonsensical answer, possibly involving canaries... and other things I might possibly be able to tie together.. feel free to help me come up with it! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Tell him that if you'd been told how tall the apartment building was and which day of the week the crocodiles at the zoo were fed you'd have got it easily...
You mean you can't fire this out on your own!? Fine. Ready? 2,3, and 6. If you figure out the multiplication problem, the rest is irrelevant information. whups! nvm, you did get it. Apply the KISS principle.
36, 1, 1. A second wife was involved. The latter two are twins and here is where he used to live.... http://www.apartrental.com/apartment-paris/paris-apartment-38.html
The fact that there is a youngest child means that the if there are twins they cannot be younger than the older sibling, correct?
Wait, I thought you got it. One is five minutes younger than the other one year old. The 36 year old is the oldest. Hence.....
