What does the fraction equal?
What does the fraction equal?
Here is a puzzle I just heard about.
Nebuchadnezzar x Methuselah
--------------------------- = ?
Melchior + Balthazar
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I think dr jimbob's is clearly the intended one.
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– Gareth McCaughan♦
Sep 8 '18 at 19:16
3 Answers
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These are
large wine bottle sizes specific for sparkling wine.
Specifically,
Melchior = 24 standard bottles,
Nebuchadnezzar = 20 standard bottles,
Balthazar = 16 standard bottles,
Methuselah = 8 standard bottles,
Jeroboam = 4 standard bottles.
Source
So the math works out to give
$frac20 mathrmbottles times 8 mathrmbottles24mathrmbottles+16 mathrmbottles = frac160mathrmbottles^240mathrmbottles = 4 mathrmbottles$
Which going back to the word equivalency we find is equal to the word:
Jeroboam
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(Thanks. Was having trouble getting the spoiler formatting working.)
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– dr jimbob
Sep 8 '18 at 18:17
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No problem! The spoilers are funny, they are indeed >! but you can't have consecutive lines of >! unless you have <pre> or some funny code before and after it. I like personally spacing things out with non-spoiler words.
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– El-Guest
Sep 8 '18 at 18:19
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This is definitely the right answer in my view. Congratulations.
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– Anush
Sep 8 '18 at 19:24
The answer is
306.
This is because
of the ages of the men when they died: Nebuchadnezzar was 72; Methuselah was 969; Melchior was 116; and Balthazar was 112.
So the math works out to
$frac72 times 969116 + 112 = 306$.
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Wow. Even though this wasn't the answer, it's pretty remarkable that you got an integer out of that.
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– greenturtle3141
Sep 9 '18 at 16:09
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@greenturtle3141 I was stunned when it worked out like that — to be honest, if it didn’t I might’ve not posted it haha!
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– El-Guest
Sep 9 '18 at 16:14
I'm not sure if my answer is right, but this could be a variation
If we take the number word of each word (i.e. a=1, 26=z) and do the math we get: (148*112)/(83+89), to 96.3720930233
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Looks like you have quite a few valid potential answers!
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– El-Guest
Sep 8 '18 at 18:23