Hello and welcome to my first puzzle/quiz tryout.

This is a mathmatical quiz / puzzle, at around a new high schooler level, and if not you could quickly look up some stuff and try to figure it out by that, anyways... As the title says, it is for Portal 2!

Giveaway ends the 24/6/12 - Which means you have a little more than 6 days.

Start here!

If you're not into the puzzles.. You can enter my first giveaway here!

Do leave a comment on what you think is good, or if I made an error, because that would suck, but otherwise, best of luck!

IMPORTANT: Seems like I made a typo on question 3, it's supposed to be: ...+ 4^(-0.5) -...
Sorry for the confusion!

IMPORTANT: If you run into a question and you don't think it has an answer, try 0 in an Ascii table and type that in (begin with capital letter) - Oh and it is not the char you type in, it is the description.

IMPORTANT: Part 2, question 3 is lacking a + sign. 1st line is supposed to be 3x + 4y - 23 = 0, again.. So sorry!

IMPORTANT: Part 2, question 5... I was an idiot.. The middle part of it is "x = 3", instead of 2.9 as it really should have been since I was looking at it wrong. Sorry >.<

IMPORTANT: Part 3, question 4... I have no idea what I was doing, the correct answers are "B = 26.2, C = 33.8, a = 9.03" but somehow I managed to screw that up. If you hit those numbers, you are awesome! Here's the answer that I ... for some reason put in there. "a = 3.9, B = 52.3, C = 85.7" Again.. Terribly sorry for these mistakes.

A little hint for you people, if you're having problems with part 2 question 2, remember what you can and what you cannot divide with.

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oh maths puzzle finaly something of my interests :D Thanks!

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What's the format of the third question?

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thank god i'm good at math :)

12 years ago
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3rd looks wrong...

12 years ago
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so does 4th :/ WolframAlpha agrees with me, but the quiz says "wrong"

Edit : AH ! You need (number)[SPACE]/SPACEx
(like the hint said :3 silly me)

12 years ago
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+1 with wolfram :)

12 years ago
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+2 for the amazing quiz solver

12 years ago
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I ran into the error on 3 as well but figured it out, also ran into the formatting error on 4s answer.

EDIT: Not going to do 5 stages right now when I ran into a couple format errors on the first one. GL all. :)

12 years ago
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Sorry.. Seems like my attempt at making it simple with the formats has made it too confusing? =/

12 years ago
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No worries, it is a good idea, the formatting just made it weird. If I hadn't played Portal 2 through on console already I would push harder to complete the puzzle, believe me. :D

12 years ago
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I solved the 3rd one, there was a typo. Can I tell where it is or it is prohibited?

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Please do.

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I concur.

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If I made a typo please do say without giving away any answers :)

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Also for the second part question 2 says (12 / 3) - (6 / (x - 2)) = 9 / x when it should say (like the picture) (12 / x) - (6 / (x - 2)) = 9 / x

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4^(0.5) + 4^(-0.5) - 0.25^(0.5) - correct form

12 years ago
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4^(-0.2) should be 4^(-0.5)

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Ah, simpler indeed :3

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what is the format for the question 3 answer?

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It's a single integer...

12 years ago
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Solved first part

12 years ago
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Nicely done! 4 parts left! :D

12 years ago
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Answer is: "x = xx.x"
this made me type a wrong answer :p

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How much time till it ends?

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Edited with information about this :)
Good luck!

12 years ago
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are we doing your homework? :D

12 years ago
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I should be revising for my Analysis exam, not doing high-school math -_-

12 years ago
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No xD
I finished this year, but this is all math I learned from that year of high school :P

12 years ago
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Stage 2 question 4 is... wrong. That or I've misread the question.

12 years ago
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Oh right I forgot to mention that one in the details... Hang on!

12 years ago
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Puzzles I can't solve, got Portal 2 anyway. Congrats on those that have the skill or tools to solve this.

12 years ago
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can you come into s.gifts chat because i need to ask about a question from a later stage? There is a something missing. :D Question 3 from part 2.

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im guessing there is "+" missing between 3x and 4y in first

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Thanks. Also in the 4th there might be something off.

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shhhh, you ruined it :p

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edited. ;)

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anyways he said something about it in the OP

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Thank you.. You kind of gave it away...

12 years ago
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I'm sorry, hard to disntiguish a mistake from an intentional part of the puzzle.

12 years ago
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also question 5 : "(|4 - x|) / (|x - 3|) = 5x + 2" that's not an inequation. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequation )

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My bad.. I was thinking of inequations when I made that one.. It is a simple equation indeed x)

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How are we supposed to enter multiple solutions and what is the correct format for them. For example in part 2 => 3rd, 4th and 5th

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Like I tried to say in the format thing.. Use comma and space..

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X has multiple solutions in question 2. And they're not integers.

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Aren't there rules for what you can divide with? :) Little hint for you.

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Actually it was because of the pic/text difference :p I'd taken the text

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I want to ask something. In second part. Is there any symbol between x & y (3x 4y - 23 = 0)? )sorry for bad english)

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see his third "IMPORTANT"

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Thanks

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2nd question from 2nd test isn't a 2nd degree function? what is the format? + i don't understand the "x = xx.x" format, can you give an example?

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x = 42.0 (okay bad example, you'd have to type "x=42" then. But 42 is just... 42.)

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x = 47.9 :D example

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(12 / 3) - (6 / (x - 2)) = 9 / x and the picture states 12/x-6/(x-2)=9/x . Which one to go for? (Test 2 exercise 2)

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pic. text doesn't give any usable answer.

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oh yea, the question w/ 12/3 was going to give 2 solutions. Cheers

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go with the pic :D

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x=-2 ?

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Part 2, question 2 has the question in the text wrong, when comparing to the picture, says 12 / 3 and in image 12 / x

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see previous post : use the pic equation.

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Why is the second test called "Equations and Inequalities" if, you know, there aren't any inequalities?

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he thought q5 was an inequality.

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what's with 5th in 2nd one? there's no real solutions

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there are, just no integers/finite decimal numbers. So no typable ones :(

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that's what i meant..

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Is there something wrong with part 2 question 4?

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yes, but he mentions it in OP

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OP overpowerd? :D what?

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Original Post

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Ok

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Not that i can see

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You mean that ascii hint?

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the format should be both the roots? or +/- y, where Y is the solution?

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Try solving it, you'll see :p

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Seriously, this 2nd part has like 1 error per question :/

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so...i'm still scratching my head as to the formating of part 2 question 4... Some help?

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Same :/

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Im thinking quadratic formula but im not sure what the format should look like

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see his 2nd "IMPORTANT"

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Please recheck Q5 from 2nd puzzle. I solved it like 3 times, and can't get trough...

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Neither can Wolfram :p. And OP (Original Poster, ie the author of the quiz) is not responding to my PMs

12 years ago
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Actually Wolfram sometimes overthink equations (p2q2)

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I had no prob with p2q2 with wolfram, just that the text eqution is wrong, you have to use the one in the pic.

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Copy/paste sux :D

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nods :3 (frankly, solving equations with typos, by hand... just... no.)

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That one seems to have irrational answers. Also it's like three cases to check.

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yeah. But how d'you type those irrational answers ?

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Well the answer says one decimal.

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ah, okay. Hadn't understood as "round answer to one decimal"

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Just say if you manage to get to the right answer. Becasue I don't know if I want to calculate them at all hehe when there might not be any right ones.

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I suck at this, I looked at it wrong and therefor the answer is wrong, look at OP for the solution.

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Maybe you should just remake the puzzles, there sure are a lot of errors.

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says the guy named "Glitchy" :p

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It's all my fault! It's ALWAYS my fault! :<

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aw, i would really love Portal 2!

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q4 : nope, negative delta, only real numbers. q5 : middle answer is 3, not 2.9 (OP's mistake. Again -_-)

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How can 3 be an answer when it causes division by 0.

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Shush.. I wasn't thinking.. it was supposed to be 2.9 but somehow my brain thought 3.. <.<

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2.9 is not the answer either, just substitute it for x and you get 11 = 16,5

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2.9 is the simplified answer.. There are more decimals in there which might explain it

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ok then, thanks.

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Actually c is negative too.. Which means negative delta.

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Question 4: Try solving it and check OP again

Question 5: Try looking at OP again...

Sorry for the confusion =/

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Cant get Question 5 answer too... I dont think it`s math problem ;(

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yeah same problem

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Closed 12 years ago by Mildan.