Matthew's favourite number is 47.
Jacob's favourite number is 17.
Tony's favourite number is 38.
What is Evan's favourite number?
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Possible answer:
22
Because
Taking the position of every letter in the alphabet and adding the length, dividing by two and then subtracting 1 from the result gives the numbers for each name.
Example
Matthew $\rightarrow \lfloor\frac{13+1+20+20+8 + 5 + 23 + 7}{2}\rfloor-1 = \lfloor 97/2 \rfloor -1 = 47$
answered Jan 29, 2016 at 18:55
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1$\begingroup$ Good job! That is the correct answer! I got the numbers a different way though this way gives the same numbers. $\endgroup$ Jan 29, 2016 at 19:25
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$\begingroup$ Out of curiosity, @GamrCorps, how did you get the numbers? $\endgroup$ Jan 29, 2016 at 22:17
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1$\begingroup$ @caonayemi I took the alphabet and mapped it to its number in the alphabet (
A=1, B=2, etc.) then divided each number by 2 and took the ceiling (result wasA=1, B=1, C=2, D=2, etc.), then I just added all of the numbers in the persons name. $\endgroup$ Jan 29, 2016 at 22:44