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ATOT, are you smarter than my 3rd grader?

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gothamhunter said:
Seriously, what the hell? If you look at the full God Damn pattern, 3,1 and 3,3 make no fucking sense.

1,2,1,2,1 - what comes next? A FUCKING 2
1,1,2,2,3 - what comes next? A FUCKING 3

FUCKING 2, 3

/THREAD

GOD DAMN IT
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LOL. Thanks for the ragethread, gothamhunter. That was great. 😀
 
to help everyones headaches, its easier if you say it out loud.

one one
two one
one two
two two
one three
three three

the first number isnt the pattern in the teachers eyes, only the repeating numbers in the second.
 
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Rhoxed said:
could also be 2 owners 4 pets each

it you look, row 2 to 4 doubles - so does 1 to 3, but 5 cancels the double theory and leaves it at +1, but row 2 to 4 is up in the air whether it is doubled or just +1

so imo correct answers would be either
2 owners 3 pets each, or
2 owners 4 pets each.

op/op op/opp/opp opp/oppp/oppp oppp or
op/op op/opp/opp opp/oppp/opppp opppp


wow so i asked my gf.... she made the teachers answer make sense
O,P (Owners,Pets each
1,1
2,1
1,2
2,2
1,3
3,3
1,4
4,4
1,5
5,5
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I don't get this. How are people making making the jump from two to three owners? If the pattern was as follows:

a,b
b,b
a,c
c,c

Then 2,1 could never have been an option in row two.
 
Rhoxed said:
it you look, row 2 to 4 doubles - so does 1 to 3, but 5 cancels the double theory and leaves it at +1, but row 2 to 4 is up in the air whether it is doubled or just +1

miss that part? - this sequence is too open to give a *right* answer.


but as i edited in my last post... the teacher was right... sadly my g/f knew this
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Did you miss THIS part?

If part of your suggested pattern contradicts the rest of it, then your suggested pattern DOESN'T FUCKING WORK!!!!
 
iCyborg said:
http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=84

This sums it up nicely for me (and others here claiming there's more than one correct answer). The author has Ph.D. in math and won gold medal at math olympiad in high school...
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In the example given by the author, he has legit reasons for saying there are multiple answers. His alternative answers are supported by the initial pattern given. But people in this thread offering multiple answers are including answers which require support beyond the information the initial statement provides or doing ridiculous things that don't make sense to force the 3,3 answer. So ridiculous. Yes, there are such patterns that are incompletely specified and could be open ended given lack of specification. The pattern given by the op has enough information to zero in on a definitive answer.

Rhoxed said:
to help everyones headaches, its easier if you say it out loud.

one one
two one
one two
two two
one three
three three

the first number isnt the pattern in the teachers eyes, only the repeating numbers in the second.
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the only way that will work is if you start fudging with information you don't have. or the sequence must be the following:

one one
one one
one two
two two
one three
three three
 
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Regardless of the possible correct answers, the teacher is clearly wrong to say a certain answer is "the" right one.

(I feel like I said this 2 pages ago)

MotionMan
 
gothamhunter said:
Seriously, what the hell? If you look at the full God Damn pattern, 3,1 and 3,3 make no fucking sense.

1,2,1,2,1 - what comes next? A FUCKING 2
1,1,2,2,3 - what comes next? A FUCKING 3

FUCKING 2, 3

/THREAD

GOD DAMN IT
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Here are some patterns just for the first row:
1,2,1,2,1,3,1,3,1,4,1,4,1,5,1,5,1,6,1,...
1,2,1,2,1,4,1,6,1,10,1,16,1,26,1,42,...
1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 2, 4,
1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 5, 2, 2, 1, 5, 1, 2, 1, 14,
Or perhaps using triangular numbers:
1,2,1,2,1,3,2,4,...
 
TecHNooB said:
In the example given by the author, he has legit reasons for saying there are multiple answers. His alternative answers are supported by the initial pattern given. But people in this thread offering multiple answers are including answers which require support beyond the information the initial statement provides or doing ridiculous things that don't make sense to force the 3,3 answer. So ridiculous. Yes, there are such patterns that are incompletely specified and could be open ended given lack of specification. The pattern given by the op has enough information to zero in on a definitive answer.
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The author is a she.
Her point is that there is 'only one logical answer' if you're not creative enough. In a way you must forget anything advanced you might know and think what the standard answer should be. Even here I can find justification for a couple other answers and Dr. Pizza has given quite a few. I agree that 2-3 is in some sense the most logical, but e.g. 3-1 is not far fetched to me either. So I'm not sure how people think this blog article also supports those who think there's only one answer here...

I agree though that 3-3 doesn't make much sense, it would have to be very convoluted reasoning...
 
Write a letter to the principal and have the teach suspended until she can solve problems on her own rather than relying solely on the answer key.
 
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