If you can answer this IQ test you are a really genius.The Horse Horseshoe Boots Viral Brain Teaser – The Correct Answer Explained.
Many people are arguing over the correct answer to this problem, which already has over 500,000 comments on Facebook.
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Answer To The Horse Horseshoe Boots Viral Brain Teaser
One tricky part about the problem is the third equation has 2 horseshoes and 2 boots but the fourth line only has 1 horseshoe and 1 boot.
horse horseshoe boots viral algebra problem solution 1
Now let’s solve for the value of each item. From the first equation we can solve that the horse equals 10.
horse horseshoe boots viral algebra problem solution 2
From the second we can then solve that each horseshoe is equal to 2.
horse horseshoe boots viral algebra problem solution 3
Then from the third we can solve that the value of a boot is equal to 1.
horse horseshoe boots viral algebra problem solution step 4
We then need to evaluate the value of the boot plus (horse × horseshoe). This is 1 + 10 × 2 = 1 + 20 = 21.
(The 10 × 2 is evaluated first by the order of operations because multiplication takes precedence over addition).
horse horseshoe boots viral algebra problem solution 5
Therefore the correct answer is 21.
This problem is similar to the flower algebra problem and the fruit algebra problem which also went viral and generated a lot of discussion.
Sorry but that’s not correct. A 2-horseshoe symbol equals 4 but that doesn’t mean a 1-horseshoe symbol equals 2 (or half the number of horseshoes). A pictogram has a value but another pictogram with half the number of items in it doesn’t necessarily mean it has a value of half the original pictogram.
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