Are you 2% or 98%. Amazing the way our minds work!

by AK - Jeff 37 Replies latest jw friends

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    Knowing it was a test to narrow me down to some typical or anti-typical person, I was able to think fast enough to come up with an Iguana in Djibouti with an apple.

    But I had to pause long enough to say, "What countries start with D?" If I had said "Dominican Republic" I could have gotten a chicken with a nectarine.
    Multiplying by 9 makes the digits add up to 9 so you get to "D" no matter what number you start with. Knowing that put me totally on guard and starting to think of unusual answers.

    (Edited to add: I knew this "9" trick without reading the thread. I remember it was a way to know if some large number were divisible by 9.

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    How about an ibex eating a xigua in Djibouti?

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    I wonder how much of the 2% are those who couldn't add and messed up the first step.

  • aSphereisnotaCircle
    aSphereisnotaCircle

    i got a koala in dominican republic eating an apple.

    But yeah, it's a math trick that gets you to the number 4 which gets you to D, and then after that, their just isn't that many countries that start with a D.

    It's a cool trick

  • White Dove
    White Dove

    I got "eggplant." That's a fruit, isn't it?

  • ana_dote
    ana_dote

    i got the same as jadeen!! dominican republic, cat, tangerine! :P

    yay i'm 2% smarter! er...wait...LOL j/k :P

  • White Dove
    White Dove

    Damascus (town, not country...duh)

    Snake

    Eggplant

    WRONG!

  • White Dove
    White Dove

    There are few choices, really, but to pick mostly the ones they say you'd be most likely to pick.

    I chose the second time around:

    8

    72

    9

    4

    D

    Dalmatia

    Anteater

    R.......??? Umm...radish?

    The most common things are chosen the most. Could have been: Dalmatia, Ardvark, Kiwi.

  • jeanV
    jeanV

    a koala in Denmark eating an apple ;)

  • millions now living are dead
    millions now living are dead

    Alligator in Bosnia eating Raspberries.

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