By comparing TWO to ONE, which both have an O, you learn that TW costs a dollar more than NE. TWELVE and ELEVEN share ELEV, but swap out a NE for a TW. Therefore TWELVE costs $1 more than ELEVEN. TWELVE costs $12.
@5774733 жыл бұрын
First I tried a few algebraic approaches that got me in circles. Then I realized this and felt happy and trolled at the same time
@toksicksea18083 жыл бұрын
Thought Literally the same
@ianlucas66353 жыл бұрын
I love how the solution presented is literally this exact same logic, but hidden. Literally, the shuffling in the anagram takes the TW from two the EN from eleven, and swaps them, Turing the two into ENO -> ONE, and the eleven into TWELEV -> TWELVE, and continuing in their logic, since TW costs a dollar more than NE, the transformation from TWO -> ONE decreases its value by one, causing the ELEVEN to increase its value by one when becoming TWELVE.
@news_oftheweek3 жыл бұрын
I did it the same way as you Rob did :)
@musicforeveryone79603 жыл бұрын
That's what I did as well!
@gedludek82453 жыл бұрын
I said to myself: twelve is twelve. I solved it, I am a genius according to the video.
@lukeryan52223 жыл бұрын
@@piggyzig 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@tobeymaguire6473 жыл бұрын
@Stephen Ferree no stfu
@silentlyow3 жыл бұрын
@Stephen Ferree lol, u r a real “genius” of the planet bro… Genius in getting wrong answers
@tithyyamnahata49443 жыл бұрын
How much time did It take u? 47 secs for me. I think that's a lot for a genius
@bball_ontop3 жыл бұрын
dude that was ez i am a genius now people!!!
@tripleheart29703 жыл бұрын
There's an even easier solution: The word TWELVE can be made from the word ELEVEN by switching the letters EN for TW. The same thing happens when TW is swapped for EN in the words ONE and TWO. Since TWO is one more dollar than ONE, it follows that TWELVE is one more dollar than ELEVEN, so TWELVE=$12.
@CS-xc3xk2 жыл бұрын
exactly how i got it felt very clever and was expecting that was the solution lol much more straight forward
@tmhchacham Жыл бұрын
Same, but even easier (to me): TWELVE is the letters of TW(O) and ELEV(EN), after removing the parenthesized letters, leaving ONE. Meaning, the equation is TWO + ELEVEN - ONE
@ste1l17 жыл бұрын
How I solved it: TWELVE = TW + ELVE TW = TWO - O = 2 - O ELVE = ELEVEN - EN = 11- EN TWELVE = TW + ELVE = (2 - O) + (11 - EN) = 13 - O - EN O = 1 - EN TWELVE = 13 - EN - 1 + EN = 12
@keoni11367 жыл бұрын
Steinar Lima same, it was only as I was finishing up that I realized the Os from "ONE" and "TWO" would cancel if you added "TWO" and subtracted "ONE" from "ELEVEN", which would leave you with the letters for "TWELVE".
@Zonnymaka7 жыл бұрын
I did the same except that ELVE = 11 - EN = 11 - (ONE -O) = 10 + O Then i summed 10 + O + 2 -O =12 Dunno why MindYourDecision made it so complicated
@epicjen7 жыл бұрын
Steinar Lima I basically did the same thing. I wrote O + NE = 1 O + TW = 2 ELEV + EN = 11 then NE = 1 - O and O = 2 - TW then ELEV + (1 - O) = 11 ELEV + (1 -(2 - TW)) = 11 ELEV + 1 - 2 + TW = 11 ELEV - 1 + TW = 11 ELVE + TW = 12 TWELVE = 12
@arasmith90767 жыл бұрын
Same
@renoblair7 жыл бұрын
Almost the same except the last step: T+W = 2-O E+L+V+E = 11-E-N 0 = 1-O-N-E T+W+E+L+V+E-0 = 2-O+11-E-N-(1-O-N-E) = 13-O-N-E-1+O+N+E = 12
@gamatostv71576 жыл бұрын
I believe that everyone's first thought was 12, but then they changed their minds because they realised it couldn't be so easy. At the end,it was.😂😂👏👏😲😲
@oualidbazzaoui19893 жыл бұрын
lol, i didn't change my mind
@Exachad3 жыл бұрын
I predicted something like that would happen. Double plot twist.
@Nilslos3 жыл бұрын
Me too, I think that was the first mind your decision problem I solved 😂 But interesting with the letters.
@aditya_raj78273 жыл бұрын
You are right bro In some exam also when questions seems to be easy we solve it more carefully.
@huangenius3 жыл бұрын
That's why curve wrecker and curve maker have same score some time
@SarbbottamBandyopadhyay3 жыл бұрын
Interesting solution with the Anagram approach. Intuitionally I expected it to be TWELVE to be 12 but then moved ahead with the equations like so: O + N + E = 1 => E = 1 - O - N (#1) T + W + O = 2 => T + W = 2 - O (#2) E + L + E + V + E + N = 11 => 3E + L + V + N = 11 Substituting the value of E (#1) in 3E + L + V + N = 11 3(1 - O - N) + L + V + N = 11 L + V + N = 11 L + V = 11 - 3 + 3O + 3N - N (It is 3O not 30) L + V = 8 + 3O + 2N (#3) T + W + E + L + V + E = T + W + L + V + 2E Substituting the value of T + W (#2), L + V (#3) and E (#1) we get (2 - O) + (8 + 3O + 2N) + 2(1 - O - N) = 2 - O + 8 + 3O + 2N + 2 - 2O - 2N = 2 + 8 + 2 - O + 3O - 2O + 2N - 2N // - O + 3O - 2O and 2N - 2N results in 0 = 2 + 8 + 2 = 12
@eithan7 жыл бұрын
Why complicate things? TWOELEVEN = TWO + ELEVEN = 13 Now you can get the word TWELVE by subtracting the letters ONE from TWOELEVEN and rearrange the letters. TWELVE = TWOELEVEN - ONE = 13 - 1 = 12
@Muuip7 жыл бұрын
eithan Great! That formulation worked best for me.
@perblame35627 жыл бұрын
Ikr. I also did that.
@ammon3887 жыл бұрын
Simple but best. Their formulas complicate the equation. lol
@allylilith56057 жыл бұрын
Dick Head ok sry then youtube somehow confused something. I got a notification of someone telling me: stop lying... and under this comment I saw Allylilith Aegwynn stop lying... posted by you somehow. Just ignore it then^^
@gfgf21237 жыл бұрын
eithan this is complicated just see ONE = 1 TWO = 2 So TW = NE + 1 ELEVEN = 11 TWELVE = ELEV + TW = ELEV + NE + 1 = ELEVEN + 1 = 11+ 1 = 12
@peterbrough24615 жыл бұрын
I got my "TWELVE" for under $4. I noticed "L' and "V" were exorbitantly priced so I bought an "E" and "N" instead, and made my own. 😜😁
@NightMind04 жыл бұрын
Mathematician vs economist
@Namath10003 жыл бұрын
The ultimate in "outside the box" thinking!
@diffdimgamerseven99863 жыл бұрын
lol
@sakshamraj13333 жыл бұрын
😂😂
@nahyanislam67423 жыл бұрын
I got 3.36
@gksshaw38673 жыл бұрын
Sometimes an easy question seems to be difficult due to the quality of questioner 😂😂😂😂
@younishmani55603 жыл бұрын
I over complicated it beyond imagination.
@younishmani55603 жыл бұрын
I was like ok so 1= o+n+e and 2=t+w+o assuming that o=n=e o is 1/3 so t+w has to be 5/3 for two to be 6/3. By the end of this I concluded that twelve is 36/3= 12
@Danitux113 жыл бұрын
@@younishmani5560 U just had luck but u cant assume o and n and e are the same price. With that logic u can think every letter is 1/3 then twelve is 2 lol
@Zekerets2 жыл бұрын
@@Danitux11 you're wrong though cause if you assume every letter is 1/3, that wouldn't work on the second and third equation. What the dude did was perfectly valid, you could just assigned the letters in the first equation random numbers that fit, and then use them to work out the rest.
@martinpiekarski15123 жыл бұрын
Oh wow, I was totally mindblown by this one. I mean, I totally couldn't expect that twelve would actually be 12.
@luizlac3 жыл бұрын
I felt the opposite: I did expect twelve to be 12 because I'm a bit Occam's Razor minded.
@martinpiekarski15123 жыл бұрын
@@luizlac Well, my comment actually meant to be sarcastic ;p
@lixx03763 жыл бұрын
@@luizlac r/wooooooosh
@avivastudios23112 жыл бұрын
😁😁 Heh... dummy.
@gwendolynsheperd90117 жыл бұрын
I was like 12! But then I thought: wait -there must be a catch somewhere... and I suddenly wasn't sure anymore
@TheUltimateRare3 жыл бұрын
the trick is... there is a catch but the answer is still 12 lol
@barbarossarotbart3 жыл бұрын
The catch is that every expects that it is no so easy and thus twelve cannot be the correct answer, but it is...
@nicolastorres1473 жыл бұрын
@@barbarossarotbart The catch is there’s no catch
@arpits10653 жыл бұрын
It's 12 bro not 479,001,600 😂😂
@AvalonWizard3 жыл бұрын
@@arpits1065 well done. 19 hours faster than me. LOL. I was hoping to be then to make the comment.
@alanzom15033 жыл бұрын
There is a simpler solution. Subtract eq 1 from eq 2 , than add the result to eq 3, on left side you get the same letters as the letters in twelve , on right side 12
@skytern18387 жыл бұрын
The difference betwen ONE and TWO is 1 dollar, and TWO replaces the E and the N in ONE for a T and a W, wich is the same thing TWELVE does with ELEVEN, so it ads one dollar. 11+1=12
@timsteel43687 жыл бұрын
Skytern,But to turn eleven to twelve you would discard one letter, the n and add tw
Skytern, I understand your point. Sorry for taking a while to address your response.
@Hanyamanusiabiasa3 жыл бұрын
Me : 12, ez win Me after 2 minutes : what, why 13? Me after 3 minutes : oh, nevermind
@SchmulKrieger3 жыл бұрын
Because of the English language and the folklore myth. Twelve does not consists of two elve. In fact it is one elve and two elve. It's literally *one over (ten)* and *two over (ten)* , or one more than ten and two more than ten.
@MonsterERB3 жыл бұрын
I didn't use the "anagram" approach, I did via substiution (you get the letters TWELVE, by combining the letters of TWO and ELEVEN, then getting rid of the letters in ONE). So, "TWELVE = TWO + ELEVEN - ONE" = 2+11-1 = 12. Neat little puzzle. Since you don't have enough information to actually solve for the values of the letters themselves (seven different letters involved (O N E T W L V) and only three independent equations), I knew that the answer had to come via substitution strategy.
@BlueCyann3 жыл бұрын
The fun thing is you can just make up numbers that fit the first three equations and it'll work. Like who wants to even begin to think about fractions of dollars. So O is a dollar and N/E are free. T is a dollar (and O is a dollar), W is free. L is eleven dollars, V is free. TWELVE is 1+11=12 dollars.
@lakotze65597 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the channel where math is made HARDER
@bruttastoriaquesta7 жыл бұрын
Lakotze math? more like logic Made into useless maths
@Robert-jy9jm5 жыл бұрын
@@bruttastoriaquesta Math is never useless.
@chandrashekharprasad30653 жыл бұрын
@@Robert-jy9jm Yeah.
@galaxybot11823 жыл бұрын
In short welcome to the channel which makes maths school like
@khajiitimanus74323 жыл бұрын
@@bruttastoriaquesta Math _is_ logic.
@raghavnandyal15187 жыл бұрын
All this video has me thinking is why does twelve have such a weird spelling if you think about it. But yeah I solved it lol
@franzluggin3987 жыл бұрын
Never think so much about a word that it stops looking like a word. Seriously, that strangeness will stick to that bunch of letters for a long time.
@wwoods667 жыл бұрын
One answer: _Eleven_ and _twelve_ come from the Old English words _endleofan_ and _twelf,_ which can be traced back further to a time when they were _ain+lif_ and _twa+lif._ So what did this _-lif_ mean? The best guess etymologists have is that it is from a root for "to leave." _Ainlif_ is "one left (after ten)" and _twalif_ is "two left (after ten)." mentalfloss.com/article/76007/why-it-eleven-twelve-instead-oneteen-twoteen
@raghavnandyal15187 жыл бұрын
Bill Woods Thanks for your inputs! So rare to see something intellectual on KZbin
@johnox22267 жыл бұрын
Bill Woods You are the biggest lad. Finally someone didn't give a cancerous answer!
@bop94027 жыл бұрын
Bill Woods
@FishbrainMnt3 жыл бұрын
Why is everyone making this so difficult. This is a simple problem. After observing it carefully you can see that it can be directly solved by simple equation -> T + W + O + E + L + E + V + E + N - (O + N + E) = 2 + 11 - 1 and when we eliminate the 3 letters that are exactly the letters form ONE we get -> T + W + E + L + V + E = 12
@anitamcsd17 жыл бұрын
*doesnt read question* "Isn't it $12?"
@nadya-catherineismail78045 жыл бұрын
*rereads question* "yes it is"
@eds19424 жыл бұрын
The shopkeeper wants you to name the price hoping that you say that it must be more than $12 and they can always laugh at you if say that it’s less than $12.
@bonnielee782 жыл бұрын
i just went by the previous pattern of number but was confused as hell when he brought the maths in to it lol
@olliehopnoodle46283 жыл бұрын
After staring at it for a minute or two I realized the letters in twelve are make up of the letters two and eleven minus the letters in one. So add up the cost of two and eleven and subtract the cost of one. Kind of how he did it.
@rini93253 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@tncookies Жыл бұрын
That's how I did it.
@heddevh Жыл бұрын
I was going to try the algebraic approach... And then realised that there probably wasn't enough information (to get the value of each individual letter) so there must be a twist to it. The solution of TW costing one more than NE came pretty quickly, but the anagram is even better!
@sebastianalarcon7986 Жыл бұрын
You can do it with the algebraic approach but you don’t need to get the exact values of TW and LV, at the end it’s basically the same, but if you start eliminating the letters that are not part of TWELVE from the other words, it swiftly ends up in TWELVE = 12 without much thought, first O and then N and you get that.
@prestonyealy47327 жыл бұрын
How I solved it: Twelve = 12
@david_ga84906 жыл бұрын
WHAT THE F*** 12 LIKES!!!!
@smonyboy5 жыл бұрын
Damn u genius
@humanl49035 жыл бұрын
That’s how I solved it
@cualquiercosa30495 жыл бұрын
Lol I did that too
@JourneytoBetterSelf4 жыл бұрын
David Gallego Álvarez I liked your comment to get 12 likessssss
@deadeye45207 жыл бұрын
Just buy an individual one and an individual two and put them together. 12 then costs $3.
@saulaxel5 жыл бұрын
That would be "twoone", not twelve
@sundaravigneshe93184 жыл бұрын
@@saulaxel it would be onetwo bruh😁😜
@saulaxel4 жыл бұрын
@@sundaravigneshe9318 Omg, you're right xD
@shreyanshjain76784 жыл бұрын
If teacher say it's 12 then it's 12
@eds19424 жыл бұрын
The numbers one (1) and two (2), in that order with nothing nothing in between is 12. More than just the shopkeeper should be able to play pricing games.
@DxRzYT3 жыл бұрын
I overcomplicated this lmao For ONE, i priced every letter which adds up to $1, so O=$1/3, N=$1/3, E=$1/3, then for TWO which adds up to $2, (O is already 1/3, so TW must be $2-1/3, which is $5/3. T=$5/6 W=$5/6 I did the same for ELEVEN, which has 6 letters and they add up to $11. The E's and N in 'eleven' already have values, and E=$1/3, N=$1/3, so we can equate this: 1/3+1/3+1/3+1/3+LV=$11 4/3+LV=$11 LV=$9.75 L=$4.875 (39/8) V=$4.875 (39/8) With all this information, you can use the values of the letters to find the value of TWELVE, where all letters have a value. So, T=$5/6, W=$5/6, E=$1/3, L=$39/8, V=$39/8, E=$1/3 So we can add these up and work out the value of TWELVE. 5/6+5/6+1/3+39/8+39/8+1/3 = TWELVE 12.083 = TWELVE I was fairly close...
@kelso202 ай бұрын
I was wondering if this puzzle was solvable using algebra, and you light the path. If you use L & V = 29/6, then I think it works. Well done, you saved me a lot of time.
@cosmicturban27977 жыл бұрын
Trick question: He's too hungover from drinking away the stress of teaching math to kids who hate math and it is too confusing for him. So he just steals the letters because he doesn't care anymore and just doesn't want to get fired from his job.
@andor8883 жыл бұрын
The best part about this is that I can justify "buying" all the Os and Ns and sell them at infinite profit.
@adityakumar44402 жыл бұрын
We can also find the value of twelve using the price of the letters themselves. Since one = $1, each letter would be 33 cents or 1/3 of a dollar. Since we already know that o is 1/3 and two = $2, we can minus 1/3 by 2 to get 1 2/3 (there is an o in two). In eleven, we can minus e and n because those two letters aren't in the word twelve. We already know from the word one that e and n combined equal 2/3, so 11-2/3 = 10 1/3. Then we add t and w to make twelve. The remaining amount from the word two was 1 2/3. Once we add 1 2/3 to 10 1/3, we can find out that the word twelve is equal to $12.
@sophiemontecalvo75037 жыл бұрын
Twelve dollars? For the record, I actually did calculations, I didn't just guess that because of the obvious. Awesome video. They never cease to amaze.
@kenlogsdon70957 жыл бұрын
I gave up trying it algebraically as soon as I realized I had to solve for 7 variables using only three equations. I didn't think it was possible. What did you get as the actual value of each letter?
The actual cost of each letter can't be determined. Just for fun, I split ONE roughly in thirds: O=.35 N=.33 E=.32 T=1.60 W=.05 L=4.50 V=5.21 I'm going to save money by buying a bunch of W and some glue. I already have the tools at home to cut them up.
@sophiemontecalvo75037 жыл бұрын
I know there are multiple ways to arrange the numbers, but applying one amount to each number made finding the answer easier for me.
@TheQueue8417 жыл бұрын
What I'm concerned about is how there are enough people buying V's that the store can afford to sell them at 104x the cost of a W. Where is this store and how's their stock of W's?
@MrDideg7 жыл бұрын
I have made it by other way O+N+E=1, T+W+O=2, and they have the "O" in comun so N+E +1=T+W, and TWELVE IS T +W+ ELVE, and if you rearrange eleven it is N+E+ELVE, so TWELVE costs one more than ELEVEN.
@radward71733 жыл бұрын
i was waiting for a non 12 answer so I could make the joke about floor being made out of ceiling and I was disappointed.
@metallabx4073 жыл бұрын
But you can make "the floor here is made out of floor" joke
@zanetruesdale83367 жыл бұрын
Is it 42?
@sphinx16597 жыл бұрын
Zane Truesdale no. it is thoughty2
@ardisiacrenata99047 жыл бұрын
Zane Truesdale Fiiine job. Now all we need to do is to find out what the Ultimate question is.
@qazwiz7 жыл бұрын
42 IS ALWAYS the answer
@zanetruesdale83367 жыл бұрын
THE OFFICIAL DROP BUTTON FINDER bruh 42 thumbs up 👌
@mene037 жыл бұрын
Zane Truesdale ahhahahah you made my day
@alexwang9827 жыл бұрын
i was like TWELVE!!!
@alexwang9827 жыл бұрын
because it said 1 costs 1 2 costs 2 11 costs 11 so 12 costs 12 AND I WAS RIGHT!!!!
@ethanpfeiffer74037 жыл бұрын
3.1415926535897 Same
@alexwang9827 жыл бұрын
you replied fast
@Slackow7 жыл бұрын
3.1415926535897 yeah but that wasn't the point. Each letter has a different price not the word. You took the wrong path.
@alexwang9827 жыл бұрын
but still it was funny when i got it
@N8570E3 жыл бұрын
1. Subtract the 1st equation from the 2nd, which gives T + W - E - N = $1. 2. Add this to the 3rd equation, which gives T + W + E + L + E + V = $12. I was stumped until I saw the equations. Nice. Stay well and Happy. Thank you.
@neerajnandan35194 жыл бұрын
I actually used a different easier method: In two and one we can find that it has O common with one. We also see that NE are cheaper than TW. Both 11 and 12 have same number of letters but NE from 11 is replaced by TW in 12. So this shows additional increase by one dollar. So then I got 12 dollars.
@Frederic14063 жыл бұрын
I did the same as you!! Really an interesting problem!
@ninthelement72893 жыл бұрын
I solved it by making up prices for each of the letters and seeing what fit the totals. I soon realised it that whichever logical value we give to each letter, the price for twelve will end up as $12. Nice one
@baams.59337 жыл бұрын
I thought you just needed common sense One = $1 Two = $2 Eleven = $11 So why the hell wouldn't 'Twelve' be $12?
@joshlucas42697 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I did aswell.
@mr.moodle88366 жыл бұрын
The letters to spell TEN are all in ONE and TWO. If we buy the letters T, E and N, and then some bonus letters on top, and that's only 3 dollars, the letters to spell out TEN cost under $10. Common sense doesn't logically prove anything in this scenario.
@James-yw9ht6 жыл бұрын
Mr. Female Cow yes it does
@UrasSomer6 жыл бұрын
Danny Burke the answer was indeed 12 but you cant say that just because it spelled out twelve. For example, something like thirteen would cost a lot more than 13 because it has a lot of letters and would cost the carpenter more money
@farisakmal27226 жыл бұрын
Kragonal 88 thought it was a trick question😅
@mohamedabdulatief32817 жыл бұрын
You will never know how i got so many likes :))
@jumpman82827 жыл бұрын
Mathemagics.
@justaregulartoaster7 жыл бұрын
come over to the dark side! we have math! (that might scare away some people)
@alexzndr40357 жыл бұрын
Mohamed Abdulatief math is dark all the time
@jumpbros92447 жыл бұрын
Mohamed Abdulatief easy af
@jurg55647 жыл бұрын
Aspire Cxmiqs Mental Abuse To Humans
@RobloxKid123 Жыл бұрын
My thought process: "Oh yeah, this is just a trick question. Let me do it properly" I converted it into a system of equations o + n + e = 1 t + w + o = 2 3e + l + v + n = 11 And I'm trying to find 2e + l + v + t + w This was my working: (I thought of combining letters from 11 and 2, so I did this) 3e + l + v + n + t + w + o = 13 And then I subtracted one and I got 2e + l + v + t + w = 12 And then I was like "Are you serious?? What a scam....."
@gavinwang15313 жыл бұрын
Imagine if this video is 10 minutes, and in the end he was like: So TWELVE costs 12 dollars tank you for watching
@Anonymoususer65413 жыл бұрын
Smashing my mobileヽ(*≧ω≦)ノ
@HannTheftAudio3 жыл бұрын
Going through that much 8u!!$#!+ just to state the obvious would definitely P!$$ some people off. Bad enough I already feel like my math teachers were wrong, lets throw this garbage in there just to screw with my 3rd grade education. Ms. Bailey would be screaming if she saw this on youtube.
@marijn98617 жыл бұрын
SIMPLE EXPLANATION i just saw that TWO and ELEVEN had the same letters as TWELVE minus the letters from ONE so 2+11 = X +1 X=12
@snowfloofcathug7 жыл бұрын
Marijn no, TWO and ELEVEN have the same letters as ONE and TWELVE :3
@marijn98617 жыл бұрын
Lucas Snowball_Cathug hahah always stay sharp. you're right
@TheMightyGiantDad7 жыл бұрын
Right? I mean, ultimately the video said the same thing but it was just more complicated.
@pierrebissonnette49347 жыл бұрын
I prefer your explanation to that of the video; I find it more mathematical.
@markwood35833 жыл бұрын
You can make twelve by taking the tw from two and the elve from eleven. To do this you must drop th o in one and the en fro eleven. When you drop the o and the en you can rearrange that to make one. Essentially you have created twelve from the previous two words by removing the letters one which is worth one on value. Answer thirteen minus one is twelve
@sergeischarrenberg3 жыл бұрын
I think the hardest part about this was making sure I didn't miss a letter or double up a letter or confuse O with 0. The problem was basic algebra made tedious lol. You also can't trust patterns, I was worried there would be if you buy three Es you get one free discount
@faceoctopus457111 ай бұрын
Sometimes zero is written with a \ going through it, so if you're writing it out by hand, you could do that.
@SatnamGugar3 жыл бұрын
This is one of the few problems on his channel I could actually do myself 🙃
@eksentrysyti2 жыл бұрын
Saw the puzzle and immediately realized it's going to be about subtracting/adding the whole strings the same way you'd do a system of equations. It's trippy that not only does 11+2-1 = 12, but the letters ELEVEN + TWO - ONE = TWELVE
@Myrus_MBG3 жыл бұрын
If you do ELEVEN - ONE + TWO you get TWELVE and so the price will be 11 - 1 + 2 = 12
@CrewMate-r1m3 жыл бұрын
This is so much better than how I did it
@bernardocarneiro21103 жыл бұрын
I just thought if I took an o, an n and an e from "twoeleven" you could get "twelve", so 11+2-1=twelve's price, yet I believe that is a convenient thing, like a guess
@damianm-nordhorn1163 жыл бұрын
That's exactly his approach at 2:30 ;)
@nchia3 жыл бұрын
I took it to mean ONE + TWO + ELEVEN = $1 + $2 + $11 = $14 = ONE + ONE + TWELVE = $2 + TWELVE So $2 + TWELVE = $14; TWELVE = $14 - $2 = $12 * TWO ELEVEN is an anagram of ONE TWELVE
@CapAnson123453 жыл бұрын
Well I realized Twelve = ELVE +TW and Eleven = ELVE +EN. So since from the first two TW is obviously EN +1, therefore TWELVE=ELEVEN+1. So 12. And then yes, I spent 10 minutes trying to talk myself out of it thinking there must be a trick.
@shyannemok75717 жыл бұрын
bless me lol the part when he says "algebraic expressions" I was like I'm outta here bye
@HannTheftAudio3 жыл бұрын
I still don't have a clue what he was talking about. I just simply converted the word to number and added a $ to it. There, instant problem solved.
@mrk40223 жыл бұрын
I solved it a bit differently. Took me 10 seconds. I noticed right away that if you put together all the letters in TWO and ELEVEN and take away from this pile all the letters in ONE, all you have left are exactly all the letters in TWELVE, no more, no less. Hence 11 + 2 - 1 = 12
@tommythai10437 жыл бұрын
TWELVE = TWO + ELEVEN - ONE = 11 + 2 - 1 = 12
@uwefeistenauer7 жыл бұрын
In Words: If you buy TWO and ELEVEN it costs 2 + 11 = 13. If you rearrange the letters you get TWELVE + ONE. So you have the letters ONE to much. Because ONE costs 1 that you don't need, the price is 13 - 1 = 12
@James-yw9ht6 жыл бұрын
or you just change the words to numbers
@sillyseaytb7 жыл бұрын
You can buy the letters of "two" and "eleven" in order to make "twelve" so 13 would be the maximum price, or even the price
@75Froggie3 жыл бұрын
How dare you think in terms of reality! Go smoke some weed and groove out on the cerebral-ness of it all. All Presh's cute anagrams and equations produce an answer that no storekeeper selling the letters would never agree to, at least if ONE, TWO, and ELEVEN were the only products we know of that the storekeepere has actually offered for sale at a stated [arbitrary] price.
@namelessminionveinreaver37633 жыл бұрын
$12, assuming a favorable return policy. Buy TWO and ELEVEN, for a total of $13. Return ONE for $1. If he will not refund the cost of ONE, you're stuck with $13. There's no evidence he sells TWELVE on its own.
@Benrir.7 жыл бұрын
isnt the words show the price so one = 1$ two = 2$ eleven = 11$ twelve = 12$ Just use the words and change it to numbers Wish i am lucky
@ProfessorSyndicateFranklai7 жыл бұрын
You are.
@Packerfan1307 жыл бұрын
I'd rather be smart than lucky.
@Benrir.7 жыл бұрын
Scott Bartholomew sometimes a smart person can lose to lucky person
@LughSummerson7 жыл бұрын
Bless your heart.
@Packerfan1307 жыл бұрын
Pocari Sweat, it's not about winning ALL of the time it's about the BEST CHANCE of winning. Smart gives the best chance over lucky. It's never been about winning ALL the time, just the BEST CHANCE of winning.
@emanuelsjodin35697 жыл бұрын
Or you just buy a one and two for 3 dollars and pretend it says 12, instead of ONETWO
@sonalidasgupta35625 жыл бұрын
...this appeals so much to my middle-class heart 👏🍻
@danmilpan3 жыл бұрын
You can just combine everything and you get that it costs 14$,you have 2xO,2xN and 2xE more than you need,so you just subtract 2xONE from 14$ and that is 14-2x1=12$
@notnotcharles30223 жыл бұрын
I didn't have the anagram :( Still the easiest problem though, only a 5 line equation with substitution! {O+N+E = 1 {T+W+O = 2 {3E+L+V+N = 11 T+W+O = 2 T+W+(1-N-E) = 2 T+W-N-E = 1 T+W+(3E+L+V-11)-E = 1 T+W+E+L+V+E = 12 Edit: Reading evyerbody else's solutions that are so simple istg I approach all of these videos with simultaneous equation and turns out I can use simple logic instead of 2 pieces of paper
@YuriLifeLove3 жыл бұрын
Don't worry... Your solution is still a lot more simpler than mine, and I use 3 pieces of paper... I called my solution "The Ridiculously Complicated Answer" O + N + E = 1 E = 1 - O - N T + W + O = 2 T + W = 2 - O E + L + E + V + E + N = 11 3E + L + V + N = 11 3E = 11 - L - V - N E = (11 - L - V - N) / 3 Compare the two results of E 1 - O - N = (11 - L - V - N) / 3 3 (1 - O - N) = 11 - L - V - N 3 - 3O - 3N = 11 - L - V - N L + V = 11 - 3 + 3O + 3N - N L + V = 8 + 3O + 2N T + W + E + L + V + E = (T + W) + 2E + (L + V) => (2 - O) + 2 (1 - O - N) + (8 + 3O + 2N) => 2 - O + 2 - 2O - 2N + 8 + 3O + 2N => 2 + 2 + 8 - O - 2O + 3O - 2N + 2N => 2 + 2 + 8 = 12
@IsakIIIHemmingsson3 жыл бұрын
You can solve it in one line :) Eleven+(two-one)=elev+tw=twelve=11+1=12
@notnotcharles30223 жыл бұрын
@@IsakIIIHemmingsson Yeah, there seem to be a lot of solutions, this is the cleanest I've seen though
@ayaghsizian6 жыл бұрын
As always, I love your questions and am amazed how I figured this out the hard way when there was a super easy way.
@epiccg68722 жыл бұрын
After a bit of thinking, I saw that you can take the "O" from "TWO" and the "EN" from "ELEVEN" to form "ONE". Since the letters from "TWO" and "ELEVEN" are worth thirteen dollars, taking out "ONE" will leave you with "TWELVE" being worth twelve dollars.
@jirarkamel27513 жыл бұрын
I had a different overview of the problem I worked it out by giving each letter or combination of letters a value range I started my assumption by giving the combination EN value between .02 dollar and .99 dollar because he said every letter has a price and the minimum price is 1 cent I think so .02 ≤ EN ≤ .99 if En has this range then.01≤ E ≤ .98 and O has the range .01 ≤ O ≤ .98 hence TW has the range 1.02 ≤ TW ≤ 1.99 here we come to the tricky part and the only assumption that could solve this probelm if EN has the minimum value which equals .02 then E has the minimum value which is .01 and LV=11-E-E-EN=11-.01-.01-.01=10.96 and O will be equal to .98 and Tw equals 1.02 TWELVE = TW+E+LV+E=1.02+.01+10.96+.01=12 I think this the only values that could solve this problem using the value ranges method because if you choose any other value for EN rather than .02 you would not be able to determine the value of E and you simply could not solve this problem
@missylim79677 жыл бұрын
Howwww do people think of this stuff? That's amazing!!!
@exel0013 жыл бұрын
twelve = tw + elve (1) from two = 2 -> tw = 2 - o (2) from eleven = 11 -> elev + en = 11 -> elev = 11 - en -> elve = 11 - en (3) subst. 3 and 2 to 1: twelve = 2 - o + 11 - en = 13 - (o+en) = 13 - one = 12
@2012oyt3 жыл бұрын
Happy that at least I could solve this one through algebraic equations on my own :). Reminded me of my school days. Great videos and great learning.
@david_ga84906 жыл бұрын
Basicaly, a Baldi's Basics problem *WOW, YOU EXIST!*
@samhan97033 жыл бұрын
I have a question, when you buy TWO and ELEVEN, the shop allow you to return ONE and refund you $1? Hardly to understand the question.
@space43407 жыл бұрын
Umm im pretty sure 1+1 is the easiest problem. I've known the answer is 3 my whole life...
@luigiboy726 жыл бұрын
Wait what... I thought 1+1 is 11.
@dustinbellina72685 жыл бұрын
I thought 1+1 was impossible to solve, thank you for the answer.
@kristo30195 жыл бұрын
I thought 1+1 was 2. My whole life is a lie
@gurnihalsingh62525 жыл бұрын
I thought 1+1=10% of 20
@manlaia23915 жыл бұрын
You’re right about that but this one is the easiest math word problem :-)
@shehabhabila94343 жыл бұрын
I guessed that it was 12$ 😅 Then I solved it with the algebraic solution before I continue the video 💃😄
@davidseed29393 жыл бұрын
ELVE-O =10 TW-NE=1 eg O=2, E=L=V=3 , N=1 , T=2, W=3 Are there a range of prices which logically reflect the cost of production eg W>V E>L
@natnew327 жыл бұрын
So, there are two clear ways of solving this problem, both having completely different rationales, and one is clearly correct, with the other therefore being incorrect... but both lead to the same answer. Yes, this is indeed the easiest problem ever.
@anarchyseeds44067 жыл бұрын
natnew32 which one is incorrect. Not sure it follows that if two things work and one works the other doesn't.
@natnew327 жыл бұрын
Exactly, it's unknown which is correct. it could be argued TWELVE = 12, based on the pattern, making the algebra unnecessary, or that the algebra has to be correct, making the Word = Number look stupid and incorrect, but both have the same answer...
@thephysicistcuber1757 жыл бұрын
pretty kek problem
@TB-up4xi3 жыл бұрын
A different approach.... TWO ELEVEN ONE = 14, take away the letters for TWELVE you're left with OEN+ONE = 2 , 14-2 =12 = TWELVE.
@debbiehenri3453 жыл бұрын
Looking just at the thumbnail for a few seconds, I spotted the lettering in twelve would be a combination of TWO and ELEVEN, minus the ONE (thus $2 + $11 - $1 = $12). Once algebra was mentioned at the beginning of the explanation, there was me thinking I'd got it wrong, but seems I got there.
@dVTHoR Жыл бұрын
I literally solved for 12 by finding the following values for the letters and having it satisfy all the given info… E = .25 N= .25 O = .50 T+W = $1.50 V + N = $10 Thus TWELVE = $12 Clearly I overthought things but I definitely had noticed the letters repeating and used that info.
@dVTHoR Жыл бұрын
More importantly, and any way you slice it; V and N buyers are losing their ass.
@idyllicmoon36513 жыл бұрын
What I did is probably the most simple answer here. If one = $1 two = $2 eleven = $11 then twelve obviously costs $12.
@edwardbrown28733 жыл бұрын
We know TW is worth one more than NE from the first two equations. Replace the EN at the end of ELEVEN with TW. This spells TWELVE rearranged. So TWELVE is worth one more than ELEVEN and so equals 12.
@tsurara68203 жыл бұрын
I thought it is 12 at first, but I want to prove it with math so I got: N+O= 1-E= 13- T-W-3E-L-V and with that: TWELVE= 12
@tncookies Жыл бұрын
I got it in a slightly different way. I noticed that you can make the word twelve from the words two and eleven if you take out o, n, and an e. Therefore, you subtract the cost of the o, n, and e ($1) from the cost of the words two and eleven ($13) to get $12.
@The-Wordsmith Жыл бұрын
That's how I did it. Seems like the quickest and easiest way to me, but what do I know 🙂
@amp2amp8003 жыл бұрын
Hey Presh Thanks ! It's about time I got one right! The explanation could have been shorter though: Buy TW (O) and EL (E) VE (N) and get a refund for (O) (N) and (E) that you put back in the box, and you're left with the letters for TWELVE. Having conceptually parted with $2 plus $11 and gotten a $1 refund, you pay $12. I did it by painting my numbers.
@4ndyr0g3r50n3 жыл бұрын
I got $5.14. If the letters of each word are of equal value you can then divide each word up to get the value of each letter (i.e. ONE has three letters so $1 divided by 3, Two has three letters so $2 divided by three and ELEVEN has seven letters so $11 divided by seven). To make TWELVE you need the T and W from TWO (so two thirds of TWO meaning two thrids of $2), two E's from ONE (meaning 2 of one third of $1), and then the L and V from ELEVEN (so two of one seventh of ELEVEN, meaning two of one seventh of $11). So the calculations are as follows: ((1/3)x2)+((2/3)x2)+((11/7)x2) = $5.14 Of course this is assuming that not only each letter within each word makes is of equal value but also that each letter can be seperated. If not, then that shop is making a huge profit margin on the word TWELVE.
@charleston-re3dw2 жыл бұрын
I found 12 because : 1) if ONE = 1€ therefore we could assume that one of them costs 0.50€, O, and the other two, N and E, cost 0.25€ 2) then TWO = 2€, O costs 0.50€ so W or T (it doesn't matter which one) costs 1€ and the other also costs 0.50€ 3) ELEVEN = 11€ where E=0.25€ N=0.25€ therefore L and V both cost 5€ 4) TWELVE = 1+0.50+0.25+5+5+0.25 = 12€ Thank you. N.B: I believe it also works for non-round numbers (I mean uglier numbers like 0.333...) or if the values are exchanged but I'm too lazy to check.
@VulcanDoodie3 жыл бұрын
we can solve it more simply : I buy an ELEVEN and a TWO wich cost me exactly 13$ . I sell the O, N, E wich I dont need to form a TWELVE and shopkeeper gives me back 1$ . therefore I spent 12 $
@sejden95683 жыл бұрын
ONE=$1 TWO=$2 ELEVEN=$11 Sum = 14 There are 2x ONE what is equal $2. and that exists TWELVE which is equal $12 because 14-2 ez
@pekaes13 жыл бұрын
12 as TWO plus ELEVEN would could 13, but you don‘t need O N or one of the 3 Es you buy with TWO and ELEVEN to build TWELVE… One costs 1 Dollar so it‘s 11+2-1 :)
@mikoap243 жыл бұрын
it was more interesting and satisfying to prove why twelve costs 12$ instead of just saying it coincided with the number...
@robertpendzick9250 Жыл бұрын
Good thing that the operation was addition rather then multiplication.
@awatercolourist Жыл бұрын
If it were, multiplication the answer would’ve been 22.
@f_m_a_v3 жыл бұрын
Hey ! When i tried it i had the same result but when i saw your answer I realized that I did it in different way : There is : O + N + E = 1 T + W + O = 2 E + L + E + V + E + N = 11 If we substract ELEVEN- ONE we can see that we have E + L + E + V + E + N -O - N - E this is equal to E + L + E + V - O = 10 then T + W + O = 2 Soo O = 2 - T - W Then if we replace it we get E + L + E + V -2 - ( -T -W ) = 10 Then E + L + E + V + T + W = 12 Then T + W + E + L + V +E = 12 😊
@goonievere3 жыл бұрын
I thought some letters do not have values like O,N. Other letters have a corresponding value; E=1, T=1, W=1, L=4, V=4 ONE = (O=0, N=0, E=1) = 1 TWO = (T=1, W=1, O=0) = 2 ELEVEN = (E=1, L=4, E=1, V=4, E=1, N=0) =11 So I have concluded that TWELVE is equal to 12 T=1, W=1, E=1, L=4, V=4, E=1
@marekkrnac43993 жыл бұрын
Also, if you want to buy roman numbers, the result would fit the soulution (which would then also be applicable in any other language other than English): ONE = "I" = 1 dollar TWO = "II" = 2 dollars ELEVEN = "XI" = 11 dollars (we can make an assumption here that when "I"= 1 dollar, "X" = 10 dollars) then, finally: TWELVE = "XII" = "X" + "I" + "I" = 10 + 1 + 1 = 12 dollars
@mathskafunda43833 жыл бұрын
Pretty simple, can be solved with simultaneous equations. Make all the letters a variable. So, O+N+E=1 T+W+O=2 and 3E+L+V+N=11. Add all these terms together and we get: 4E+L+V+2N+2O+W+T=14. Now notice to make the word TWELVE, we don’t need exactly 2E+2N+2O, which is also equal to 2(O+N+E). Since, O+N+E=1, we can simply do 4E+L+V+2N+2O+W+T-2(O+N+E)=14-2(1) This will give us 2E+L+V+W+T=12 We can rearrange this into T+W+E+L+V+E=12 and that’s the answer!!!
@jefdeleeuw3 жыл бұрын
just choose one of the letters to be 1 and the others 0 in ONE =1 (e.g. O=1) then do the same for two = 2 (e.g. T =1 and O =1) then eleven = 11 (l = 11) so twelve now equals (1+0+0+11+0+0) = 12 you have more variables than equations so this is a really easy questions with lots of ways you can assign variables (any way works)
@CM-dw2xr Жыл бұрын
You certainly don't need the clever anagrams, just set up 3 equations for the first three costs, and then solve (T+W)+2E + (L+V) by substitution. (2-O) +2E + (11-3E-(1-O-E)) = 2+11-1 =12. Takes about 15 seconds.
@huiyuxiao72913 жыл бұрын
my solution: one cost 1 two cost 2 ,that means "tw"-"ne"=1 compare eleven with twelve are also switch "tw" for "en" so twelve's cost is eleven's cost +1 =12
@ezekielcaldwell49903 жыл бұрын
That is what I did as well.
@wenaolong3 жыл бұрын
There are at minimum two solutions. One is not to assume that the prices actually vary, and assign a value to match the number stated, because that number isn't the word's worth of letters being sold, it's the shopkeeper telling you, with simple English, that each letter is worth 1 dollar. "One" letter is $1, "Two" letters is $2. "Eleven" letters is $11. So no wonder that "Twelve" letters is worth $12. But that's "two" easy. So there is the question of possible differential values of the letters which comprise "one" and "two" etc. In one version of that case, O=0 and TW-NE=1. But if that is true, and ONE=$1, then O=$0. But a free letter? Let it be true. In that case we have NE=$1 and TW=2. "ELEVEN" = $11 = (ELEV + NE = 11) So by substitution that ELEV=$10. TWELVE is (ELEV+TW) = ($10 + $2) = $12. Either way, "TWELVE" is $12. But these are two different universes: In one universe, the phrase "NUMBER" means the number of letters, or N(L), and 1(L)=$1, and 12(L)=$12, and "O"=$1. But in the other universe, N(O) always is free, no matter the N. SCOOBY DOO and SCBY D are the same price, whereas in the first case SCOOBY DOO is $9 and SCBY D is $5. Oh, and TWELVE = EETWLV = $7, while ELEVEN = EEELVN = $7. But let's not take that to be the case, because then this problem would be an annoying pun (although this could work if you were trying to cheat the devil and you were poor at algebra). Another case in that second universe works where it is NE=$0, then O=$1, and so TW=$1 and O=$1 (so TWO=$2). Then in that case ELEVEN = EEEN+LV = $11 = ($0+LV) = ($0+$11) so that LV=$11. Then TWELVE is TW+EE+LV, which is $1+$0+$11=$12. So you still don't know what any of the letters cost, but only what groups of them cost, but regardless you know what TWELVE costs: It costs $12. N could be .6 and E could be .4. That would be 1. TW could be T=1.3 and W=.7. Then ELEVEN would be .6+(.4x3)+LV so that LV=9.2 (so that 1.8+9.2=11). Then TWELVE would be TW+EE+LV = 2 + .8 + 9.2 = 12. So this works with any values of those numbers (though I haven't proven this algebraically here, which is the proper way).
@omerelbaz76483 жыл бұрын
I tried doing it without anagrams or real algebra, just by "positioning a value" to each letter (I don't know the term in English - it is not my native language). Basically what I did is giving each letter a "random" value that makes sense and it worked. For ONE I chose E as 1, and N and O as 0. I did it because I didn't want O to interfere with TW from TWO, and also N is not in TWELVE so I wanted to have the value for E - so it got the 1. So we have: O - 0 N - 0 E - 1 For TWO, because O is 0, I gave the value 1 to both T and W. So we have: O - 0 N - 0 E - 1 T - 1 W - 1 For ELEVEN, this was pretty easy. N is 0 and E is 1 which leaves us with 8 for L and V. I gave each one a value of 4. So we have: O - 0 N - 0 E - 1 T - 1 W - 1 L - 4 N - 4 For TWELVE, we can just translate it to a formula with the value of each letter: 1+1+1+4+4+1 = 12. I know that probably no one did it this way. I just suck at math and it seemed reasonable and it worked. It didn't take me too long either but maybe I just got lucky.
@CrewMate-r1m3 жыл бұрын
I think you actually did get lucky; I took a while doing systems of equations and got: O = 1 N = 0 E = 0 T + W = 1 L + V = 11 I didn't solve T, W, L, or V because it wasn't necessary: (T + W) + E + (L + V) + E 1 + 0 + 11 + 0
@Abcd-pv1ic3 жыл бұрын
The shopkeeper trying to test math teacher in his own style😎😎😎
@thisguyispeculiar3 жыл бұрын
I did it in a similar way but like this: O+N+E = 1 ---------> O = 1 - N - E T+W+O = 2 ----------> T + W = 1 + N + E 3E + L + V + N = 11 Now, TWELVE = (TW) + (2E + L + V) = (1 + N + E) + (2E + L + V) = 1 + (3E + L + V + N) = 1 + 11 = 12
@kelso202 ай бұрын
I have spent way too long on this, but here we go. The independent variables are any two of O, N & E. Having chosen them ( eg O & N ) , the third ( in this case ) E = 1 - O - N Then, TW = 2 - O and LV = 11 - N - 3E And TWELVE = TW + E + LV + E = 12 ( for all the reasons in the video and else where ) That's it, decimal, fraction, negatives, doesn't matter what you choose ( for the value of the independent variables).
@dennisjones85813 жыл бұрын
I didn't remember the anagram and I did NOT expect the answer to be 12, so I solved it algebraically and was surprised to find that the answer was 12!
@Drangelon Жыл бұрын
I went with fractions and decimals to solve it, since the whole word had that tag to it (One = $1). Since each Letter has a price, I divided the cost of the word across its letters, leading me O = $0.50, N = $0.25, E = $0.25 . Knowing this, it allowed me to do the same thing for Two (T = $1, W = $0.50). Once acquiring that, I subtracted the gained values from Eleven, leaving me with $10 for L and V (suspected to be $5 each). Afterwards I just tallied up the cost of TWELVE to be $12 (2E for $0.50, 1W for $0.50, 1L for $5, 1V for $5, 1T for $1).
@lefterismplanas4977 Жыл бұрын
Why did you devide those values so weirdly? I don't really get it. I just did straight devision O=N=E=⅓ or 0,33 T=W=(2-⅓)/2= 0,83 L=V=(11-[4×⅓])/2=4,84 TWELVE=(0,33×2)+(0,83×2)+(4,84×2)=12 "
@arthank12633 жыл бұрын
Yeah, without any anagrams, this would go like so: (1) o + n + e = 1 (2) t + w + o = 2 subtract (1) from (2) and you get (3) t + w - n - e = 1 (4) e + l + e + v + e + n = 3*e + l + v + n = 11 add (3) and (4) and you get (5) t + w - n - e + 3*e + l + v + n = t + w + 2*e + l + v = t + w + e + l + v + e = 1 + 11 = 12 And that solves it in 5 steps. Given that this is a system of equations, it would become obvious pretty quick...