Hour's Troll

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How many hours are there in a-two-and-half hours.

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Sravanth C.
Mar 20, 2015

It is just direct! There is only one "hours" in the string "two-and-half hours" !!!

Yup! I got it right ! Upvoted !

A Former Brilliant Member - 6 years, 2 months ago

Thank you very much! Don't forget to like my problem and reshare it! @Azhaghu Roopesh M

Sravanth C. - 6 years, 2 months ago

That's a great question! Though I got it wrong!!!

Chebrolu Srinivasulu - 6 years, 2 months ago

I thought it same way and got it right. The question was too easy so I thought it indirectly. Nice Question !!!

Anubhav Sharma - 6 years, 1 month ago

Sravanth Chebrolu, We decided against placing this in the Logic topic. You can refer to this note to understand what constitutes a good logic problem.

Please refrain from adding this problem back into the Logic topic.

Brilliant Mathematics Staff - 6 years ago

Thanks sir!

Sravanth C. - 6 years ago

Hehehe :ghost:

Nihar Mahajan - 5 years, 2 months ago

HAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I only realised my mistake after I entered 2!!!!! Hahaha oh my GAAAAWWWWD!!!!

Noel Lo - 4 years, 11 months ago

it was very bad

Mayank Singh - 6 years, 2 months ago

I agree - Basically a question of poor grammar

Curtis Clement - 6 years, 2 months ago

Come on don't criticize it ! Don't forget that the point of this question is to get people to answer wrongly .

A Former Brilliant Member - 6 years, 2 months ago

Akshat Sharda
Sep 24, 2015

Hours between $2$ and $half$ hours ,

= $2$ - $2\cdot \frac{1}{2}$

$=\huge \boxed{1}=\huge \color{#EC7300}{\mathbb{G}}\color{#20A900}{\mathbb{R}}\color{#D61F06}{\mathbb{E}}\color{#3D99F6}{\mathbb{A}}\color{#BA33D6}{\mathbb{T}}!!$

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