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Can anyone figure this out?

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I took me a while...

I finally figured it out mathematically and then laughed when I realized how easy it was.
 
Duh, I kept on looking at it like a math problem, the funny thing is I got it right a couple of times before, not not many, lol, now I feal dumb.
 
Ok...

I don't quite get how to solve it mathematically...

I just added up the "petals" around the "rose" 😉

It's actually not a test of how mathematically smart you are, it's more of a test of how quick you are to classify a question. If you can visualize situations and transfer and relate them them to other things (form analogies), then you should be able to get the answer rather quickly. Personally, I got it on the second try because I imagined a rose and petals..

Actually, I imagined a lily...

SPOILER!!! DON'T READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO FIGURE IT OUT ON YOUR OWN!!!

Basically, the 'rose' is the dot in the center and the 'petals' are all the dots around it.
So.. Roses are the numbers 1, 3, 5 and the petals are 0, 2 and 4 respectively. So.. just add up the number of petals and that's it.

Moral to the story: think outside the box. Even if someone says it's a math, science or whatever type of question, look at it from another approach for clarity and greater understanding.
 
Finally got it before I read WooDaddy's post. The unclear directions ("count the petals around the rose")??? didn't help. I couldn't simplify it enough. I was making it way too hard. Then I walked away and came back today and got it right off the bat. One of my problems is that I was looking at the 5 dice as a collective unit, and not as 5 individual dies. That's when it hit me.
 
We did that the first day of our physics class this year; although I cannot see the connection to physics it was interesting nonetheless.
 
saw this about a week ago, when a friend sent it to me...took me like 20 minutes. I sent it to 2 other friends, and they both figured it out on their first try. I must be getting too old, losing all my brain cells
 
RE:"I think that's a ridiculous assumption. Define harder. Because something takes longer to do than something else, does that mean it is harder or easier? Is it not possible to be mathematically inclined, but also see the true answer of something in a non-mathematical way? Would it be possible to solve a non-mathematical problem mathematically? And does that make you "smarter" if you solve it mathematically? Why? If "smarter" is an inability to comprehend something at multiple levels, then do you want to be smart?"

I don't thinks it's a ridiculous asumption.
A person who tries to solve it mathematically is in for a lot of frustration.

Mac
 
Guess it took me about 7-8 min? Quite awhile. Was getting clueless until I read the instruction...."basic understanding of math is required"
Trying too hard on this one will drag ur mind all over the place.
 
I guess if your real good at following directions, think clearly, and ignore any real need for math, then you'll get it on ur first shot.
The problem with alot of us is that our mind are tuned to solve problems in a certain way. Before we even stop to think about the question, we're ready to crank out the solution. This just goes to show that even if you are a math wiz, you're not necessary a smart person, it just means your mind has been trained to think in a certain way.
 
I mentioned this before but I'll say it again. People educated in Science or Mathematical fields are accustomed to dealing with abstracted problems and abstracted meaning of numbers and symbols. If a aerospace scientist grabs a raw data print out of gas pressures and velocities from a wind tunnel test he doesn't expect those numbers to from a pattern or shape of an aeroplane or something stupid like that. He doesn't turn to his colleagues and say ?wow that test was a dud, just look at these numbers, they don't even look like a aeroplane? 😛

Similarly I think you'll find that a good scientific mind will not jump to conclusions that limit the scope of possible solutions unnecessarily. Yes I believe this could make certain ?educated? people have more difficulty with this problem. But hey I'm biased here, it took me ages to figure it out. 🙂
 
You can solve it philosophically by pondering why you would want to waste your time solving problems you only impose on yourself instead of solving problems that impose themselves on you.

Fun game, but someone must have been on acid to think of a rose, a dice, and a math problem in the same thought. That one boggles my mind. What course of events would make you think of all of those, close enough together to be sporadically conjoined into an idea.
 
Took me about 10 or 12 seconds to get it. Looked at it mathmatically for a few seconds, then looked at it artistically. Got it on my 3rd try.
 
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