Trollathon #2.2 :The 1-2-3-4-5 Recipe
Number Theory
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1 bread, 2 cups of water, 3 pieces of cake, 4 cookies and 5 bottles of vinegar = ?
Hint : 1-2-3-4-5
The answer is 90.
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1 solution
The hint 1-2-3-4-5 prompts us to count. What should we count, the only logical answer is the number of letters of the ingredients. Now, we multiply the number of letters in an ingredient with its proportion. Then, we add them altogether. So, the answer is 1 ⋅ 5 + 2 ⋅ 5 + 3 ⋅ 4 + 4 ⋅ 7 + 5 ⋅ 7 = 9 0 .