A ) 1375 3197 5175 3751 7153 3115
B) Pea ladyfinger tomato potato cabbage
What do dopers think ? My friend and I differed on the answers . Hence I am posting here .
These are always open to some interpretation. My knee jerk reaction for the second would be:
- ladyfinger because the others are vegetables (culinary, I know a tomato is a fruit).
Lady Finger is another name for Okra
NB A google image search is deinitely NSFW :eek:
3115 is the only number with two of the same digits (1) next to each other.
A ) 1375 3197 5175 3751 7153 3115
Not sure about this one. I may be looking to much into it, but I’m going to say it’s the second number because that’s the only one where, if you keep adding all the digits together to get a single digit, you ultimately get an even number. Add the digits up, and you get: 16, 20, 18, 16, 16, and 10, respectively. Add those digits together and you get: 7, 2, 9, 7, 7, 1.
The third and sixth ones also use the same number twice, but only the sixth has them consecutively. None are prefect squares; I tried that. I dunno.
B) Pea ladyfinger tomato potato cabbage
I guess ladyfinger, since it’s some type of cake I think, and the rest are fruits/veggies.
ETA: Also, ladyfinger is the only one that doesn’t end with a vowel.
I’m no math-head, so I’ll look more at #2:
Pea ladyfinger tomato potato cabbage
I’ve got to assume that by ladyfinger, they mean okra. Otherwise, it’s too obvious - four vegetables and a baked good, Sesame Street could crack that case. Both okra and tomatoes are technically fruits that contain seeds, whereas potatoes are tubers, cabbage is a vegetable and peas are technically seeds. I think you could make a case for any one of them as the odd one out from a scientific viewpoint. Peas are the only ones that come in groups inside a pod, potatoes are the only ones grown underground, etc. I’ll give a novel answer of my own: potatoes, since to my knowledge, they’re the only “New World” item on the list. Unless you’re holding back and already know the “real” answer, or someone comes up with a real blockbuster of an answer, I doubt we’ll ever really crack this one.
Unless you’re holding back and already know the “real” answer,
No I am not ! 
Except tomatoes :smack:
A) every number is a combination of the digits 1, 3, 5, and 7, except 1397. 1397 is the only number in that list that has a digit (9) not found anywhere else in that list, so that’s my pick.
B) i got nothin’, so I’ll pick tomato because it’s the only ingredient from that list you usually use to make pizza.
Didja notice, the first syllables of ladyfinger, tomato, potato, & cabbage are each a word on their own. Not so for “pea,” for obvious reasons.
“ladyfinger” is the odd one out, even if it does mean okra. The others are all soups[sup]*[/sup].
My favorite radio show has questions like this, on occasion.
- Well, a google search does return a few recipes for “okra soup”, but it’s not even in the same league with the others.
I’m guessing the second number is the odd one out because… er… it has a 9 in it, and the others don’t. I thought one might be a prime but I checked and none are. Fairly certain that the odd one out is tomato in the second group because it’s the only fruit.
Lady’s finger is the common English name for okra outside the US and Africa.
I see what you’re saying… but the first syllable of pea is also a word.
Another vote for ladyfinger- because the others all end in vowels.
Wrong answer. 5175 is the only number in the list that lacks a ‘3’. That’s clearly the more important distinction. 
Heh. That’s the problem with this kind of question. The people who write them seem to have The Answer in mind, and they fail to notice that there are other answers that are also true as the question is written.
If “ladyfinger” means “okra”, that’s a fruit, too. And if it doesn’t, then it’s a lot further out than any of the others.
What is the reference, where the original question was asked? It seems to me to be a very poorly worded question since there are many answers. If this is a question in a kindergarden reader the answer would be different than a college textbook.
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So it is. Scratch that, then.
There’s never any one right answer for these. It’s just “Can you figure out what the testmaker was thinking?”.
My first instincts were 3197 (“It’s got a ‘9’ in it!”) and ladyfinger (“Well, I personally use all the other words…”). You can make just as good arguments for anything else, as people are doing. Even given the answer book, it would prove nothing objective.
A) 3197, I guess, because it contains a digit none of the others do.
B) None of the words are the odd one out - however, the whitespace character between ladyfinger and tomato is different from the others.
C) Why is this in GQ?