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Brain Teaser: Can you guess the four-digit number?
The brain teaser provides three hints to guess the four-digit number. Are you up for the challenge?
A brain teaser shared on Instagram has been keeping people hooked to their screens. It features three hints on the basis of which one needs to find a four-digit number. A question on the brain teaser reads, “Can you find the sum of all the divisors?”
“Can you answer it?” asks the Instagram handle @mathspuzzle while sharing a brain teaser on the meta-owned platform.
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The brain teaser features four empty boxes, and one needs to guess the numbers that fit right. The four-digit number has a total of four divisors, with two of them being 43 and 47. Can you solve this maths puzzle?
Check out this intriguing brain teaser here:
The brain teaser was shared a while back on Instagram. It has since accumulated scores of views and likes. It has also raked a flurry of comments from puzzle enthusiasts.
Here’s how people reacted to this maths puzzle:
“2112,” wrote an Instagram user, while another shared, “2021.” A third commented, “1, 43, 47, 1621.” “LCM(43,47)” hinted a fourth. “4 divisors are 43, 47, 1 & 2021,” posted a fifth.
Were you able to solve this maths puzzle? If yes, what answer did you get after solving this?
Earlier, a maths question from Singapore’s Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) went viral online. The question asked students to find the diameter of a circle, but it wasn’t as simple as it seemed. The accompanying image of circles added a level of complexity to the problem.
