There are answers a-plenty to this seemingly simple logic problem, but no one is quite sure which is the right one
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#2 You'll need a pencil and paper to figure out the latest viral puzzle
A new internet puzzle is baffling users with its mix of flowers and figures.
In the style of a reasoning problem often seen online, the puzzle requires users to work out the values of individual blooms to solve it.
The viral puzzle shows how three red flowers somehow equal 60, and one of the red flowers added to two blue are equal to 30.
To help you work out the values of each, you're then shown that one of the blue flowers minus a yellow one is equal to three.
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The final equation is the one which you have to solve - what is the value of a yellow flower, plus a red one, plus a blue one.
Shared on the Trending in China Facebook page, it's already baffled users, with more than 2,200 reactions - with more than 3,500 comments.
One claims to have solved it - Bond Ariel Bond, who writes: "Easy - the result is... 101. Let me explain it: 20 + 20 + 20 = 60; 20 + 5 + 5 = 30; 5 - 2 = 3; 1 + (20 x 5) = 101."
Others claim it is 25, as it's to do with petals. In this solution, a red flower is 20, a blue flower with five petals is 5, and two yellow flowers are two.
The final single yellow flower added to one red flower, is then added to one blue flower with only four petals.
This makes the equation 1 + 20 + 4.
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Although the answer has been elusive to say the least, one maths teacher has called it "unsolvable".
Named as 'Professor Puzzler', he wrote : "The correct answer to this question is, "No, I cannot solve this." There really is no other answer. If you came up with a numerical value, you were wrong (sorry!)."
He says the concern is the blue flower in the last line, which has one petal fewer than in its previous appearances - and that the final yellow flower is a single, not a double as before.
He wrote: wrote: "The obvious (and erroneous) lesson to take here is that we're going to count petals instead of flowers.
#4 It looks like it should be easy, but even a maths teacher says there is no solution
"This leads people to the result of 25. So why is this wrong? Because the equations are not petal images; they are images of entire flowers.
"We can calculate the value of a red flower, we can calculate the value of a yellow flower, and we can calculate the value of a blue flower with five petals, but we do not have any information with which to calculate the value of a blue flower with four petals.
"Unless we make the assumption that the entire value of a flower lies in its petals.
"Ask a florist if he would sell a flower for the same price if the leaves and stem had been removed. I think you know what he'll say."
He went on to brand the puzzle a "waste of my time" and declared it unsolvable
