August: 9 June: 6 October: 12 September: ?
Took a quiz online and got every question but this one. It’s probably blindingly obvious and I’m gonna feel like a moron when someone explains it but I totally don’t see it. The available answers were: 9 12 16 18
Well, of course, with these things, you can always twist up some contrived rule to support any answer. What I see is “The answer is three times the number of consonants”; thus, 18.
I don’t think that’s right because I just guessed blindly and chose 18. Tho’ it is conceivable that this wasn’t the actual question I missed but I was pretty sure I got the others correct.
Another possible answer is 9:
August is the 8th month, plus 1 to get 9
June is the 6th month, plus 0 to get 6
October is the 10th month, plus 2 to get 12
September is the 9th month, plus 0 to get 9.
I.e. you add n to the month for the nth odd entry in the list, and add 0 to the month for all the even entries.
Or it could be 12, if the nth entry is defined by the sum of the n-2nd value + the difference between the n-1st and n-2nd: 9 + abs(9 - 6) = 12 to get the value for October. By the same pattern, September gets the value 6 + abs(6 - 12) = 12.
Yep. You can always devise a pattern to support any answer; it’s up to you to decide what pattern appeals to you most.
Could be 12, if you go by one syllable words count as 6, and add three for each additional syllable.
Ah, I like that too.
Yeah, but usually for these things, there’s an answer that seems a lot more obvious than the other ones. I was thinking it something obvious that I just missed. But maybe it’s just a bad question.
link?
Could it be a trivia question? Like how many American Presidents were born in this month?
Here it is: Logical Thinking Test. (I don’t think you have to create an account) There’s 15 questions and I thought all the answers were fairly obvious with just a bit of thought.
OK, I just took it again and discovered I’d actually gotten a different (embarrassingly easy, one half of one fifth of one quarter of 500 is not 25 :smack: ) question wrong so the answer they’re looking for is the “18” that I’d guessed.
There’s no answer key or explanation so I guess Indistinguishable’s answer is as good as any. Thanks guys.
ETA: Whoops, missed post above.
Because I originally scored 93% which is 14/15.
Eh! You edited precisely as I hit reply. Freaky.
Its the number of consonants in the month x 3?
September = 18.
Somebody double check my math.
I believe it’s a percentile score, though; as in, you scored better than 93% of those of equal age and gender and such, not that you got 93% of the answers correct. (Try setting your birthyear to 1920, for example, and watch that percentile rocket to 99%)
It gives both. I scored 100% (thanks for the help 
), and was placed in the 99[sup]th[/sup] percentile.
August 9
gst x 3 = 9
June 6
jn x 3 = 6
October 12
ctbr x 3 = 12
September
sptmbr x 3 = 18
Took a peek at Wiki. Didn’t see anything, starting at August 9th.
Obviously it’s the date of rank of Union generals who served at the Battle of Gettysburg:
August 9 (1861): James S. Wadsworth
June 6 (1863): Stephen H. Weed
October 12 (1861): Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich, Baron Von Steinwehr
September 16 (1861): Horatio G. Wright
Ergo, the answer is 16. What could be simpler?