can you make 64/4= 6? Any trick?
By noachide
@noachide (162)
India
9 responses
@medooley (1873)
• United States
12 Jan 07
If you take 64, which I assume is base 10, and transform that to a base of thirty, you get 24 (base 30)... now we take 24 and divid it by 4... 24 divided by 4 is 6. We mixed bases and came up with new numbers so, so I don't really know if this is fair. As we all know there is no way that 64 divided by 4 equal 6.
There you go, I don't know if that is really a trick or not, but that is how I would do it. Of course there is a lot of assumptions envolved.
Is this how you choose to solve it? If not please let me know how you did it, as this is the only way that I could figure it out.
@noachide (162)
• India
12 Jan 07
you can write 64 as 6x4, as some friends suggested. But i know college students doing it much more simple. they even write (a + b)/b = a. they think cancelling the common b is fair.. so
here also, in 64/4, just cancel 4, you get 6. Isn't that a very kiddish trick?!
@shukla009 (99)
• India
6 Jan 07
I dont think that thier is any trick by which we can do.You should confirm with any maths magician
@sandeepnair85 (81)
• India
13 Jan 07
Its no way possible. unless u bring out new mathematics. You said trick right. See this.
64/4 Now replacing 4 by a variable 'a' i will have
64/4 = 6a/a = 6 .
What about that dude
@jonezy (293)
•
6 Jan 07
hmmm i just wrote out an entire paragraph explaining how i could get it to work, shortly before realising that i hadnt got it to equal 6 but infact 4... what a let down eh. i guess your going along the lines of seperate the digits of the 64 into 6 and then 4, then divide 4 by the 4 which gives you 1, then put the 6 and the 1 backtogether, and when we think about algebra we knwo that 2 things put together means we have to times them, so 6 and 11 times by each other would give us the final answer of 6, thus i have got 64 / 4 to give 6, this is with a stupid way of working it out and doing the sum, but then again you did say with any trick...
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