Chapter 84: Not a Single Question Correct (1/2)
Chapter 84: Not a Single Question Correct
Translator: Pika
Zu An chuckled at Yang Wei’s expression He looked like he was about to burst a blood vessel He said to the teacher, “There’s a very easy way to resolve this situation I’ll set twenty questions too Regardless of whether you cheat or guess your way through, as long as you can solve theive you a discount If you even solve half of theet out of the academy ier How does that sound?”
NoWei was still an official of the royal court, and a teacher officially hired by the acadeood position to ter Wei couldn’t even answer a single question Zu An set? No matter how shano Wei was taken aback by the sudden proposal He was intied to easily solve all twenty questions, and his confidence was rapidly deflating
Shang Liuyu took this opportunity to chi, surely you can’t be intiht?”
“Of course not!” Yang Wei ihtened up “Do your worst then! I’ll solve even 200 questions if that’s what it needs to make you submit!”
This wasn’t a bad bet toall twenty questions, at the very least, solving ten of them would be ithin his capabilities He was a renowned arith calculated years of taxes for the Civil Affairs Depart punk’s questions could trip hi as he succeeded, he would be able to send Zu An packing fro Wei was thinking based on his reaction, and he smiled to himself I shall show you the horrors of mathematics then!
There were many plausible questions he could coeometry questions He doubted anyone in this world knew about pi, calculating the area of a circle, and that sort of thing Setting those questions would only s difficult for Yang Wei
In order to crush Yang Wei thoroughly, what he had to do was to come up with questions that everyone understood, but were unable to solve Got it!
With quick, deft strokes of his brush, Zu An wrote out twenty questions in a flash He handed the sheet of paper over to Yang Wei with the sincerest of smiles “Since you’re a renowned arithmetic expert, I trust that these questions wouldn’t pose any proble Wei was surprised by Zu An’s sudden humility He cleared his throat “Of course How difficult could questions co from a junior like you be?”
He took the paper and read the first question:
‘There are two nuiven to Person A, and the product of the two nuiven to Person B Person A told Person B that he didn’t knohat the two numbers were, and Person B said that he didn’t know either With that, Person A said that he knew the answer now, and Person B replied that he knew the answer too
‘What are the two nu Wei had come up with, the concept of multiplication did exist in this world, so it wasn’t out of the syllabus
Yang Wei blinked his eyes several ti the question What the hell is this? I’ve never seen such questions before! T-this How the hell do I solve such a question?!
The question looked silance, but as he tried to solve it, cold sweat began dripping frohout his entire life, he found hiure out a way to solve this question!
The surrounding students also began discussing the questionThey had never seen such a novel question before However, even after racking their brains for a long while, they had no idea where to begin
“Silence!”
Yang Wei was hoping for some inspiration from the students around hi nothing This made him incredibly frustrated
The students stuck out their tongues at him in response You’re the one who can’t solve the question Why are you venting your frustrations on us?
Yang Wei’s face turned as black as charcoal at their s It was then that he realized there were only twenty numbers in total At most, I’ll just try the numbers one by one I reckon that’s how that fellow solved my questions earlier!
He quickly composed himself and proceeded with his calculations
The students looked on as he began working through the proble deeply ied to find a way to work out the answer in just a few ed on a chair, calht out fro Liuyu, appreciating herto this world, but even he had to ad Liuyu, on the other hand, was focused on the question Even though she was a foreign language teacher, she still knew a thing or two about arith Wei’s questions earlier, but the question Zu An devised was sih, she couldn’t make heads or tails out of it
She threw a discreet glance at Zu An, only to see hi at her She was a in the midst of an important bet This lad sure is confident in himself He really is different from the others
In contrast to Zu An’s relaxed de Wei’s clothes were coress through trial and error, but the ressed, the more muddled he becaht to him
He sed and shot a look at Zu An, who stared back at himatic smile on his lips All of a sudden, it struck him This fellow must have intentionally put the hardest question in front to trapWei decided to move on to the next question He would return to this one later on
He flipped over to the second question, and this hat he saw
‘There are three doors in front of you Behind one of the doors is a treasure, but there is nothing behind the other two After you select a door, so an empty room Then, the person offers you the chance to switch to another door Tothe door that hides the treasure, would you switch to another door? Please state the reason behind your decision[2]
Yang Wei was delighted
That fellow has indeed put the hardest question in front This is ardless of whether I change doors or not? He even tried tothe question to make it seem as if there’s a better decision Do you take me for a fool?
He quickly wrote down ‘I won’t switch to another door’ However, still worried that his answer ardless of whether I switch doors or not, the probability of selecting the door with the treasure is the same’
Satisfied with his answer, he ed to obtain 100 ki stones in a raid Pirate A was given the right to decide how to distribute the bounty, but the proposal he coreed upon by more than half of the pirates in order for it to be accepted Otherwise, he would be thrown into the sea, and Pirate B will be given the right to deter that you’re Pirate A, how should you distribute the ki stones in order to ain?
‘Please assume that the pirates are rational arithmetic experts, and they’re able to accurately calculate their gains and losses to decide on the best course of action thatWei was stunned Just what in the world is in that fellow’s mind for him to come up with such weird questions?
His first response was to equally distribute the ki stones a all the pirates, but he soon threw out the answer and tried to calculate other possibilities
The surrounding students also launched into fervent discussion, but none of them had a clue what the opti Liuyu found the use of the ter This lad sure co for a while, Yang Wei took out his already-soaked handkerchief once more and wiped his forehead He was in full-blown panic He couldn’t find a way to verify whether his ansas right or not
Should IWei remembered how Zu An had chosen to put the hardest question in front, and he figured that the questions behind should be easier Taking a deep breath, he proceeded with the fourth question
‘Five prisoners, nureen beans froreen beans The rules state that they’ll have to take at least one green bean The prisoners are not allowed to communicate with one another, but they are able to count the nuh touch Which of the five prisoners has the highest chance of survival? All the prisoners who end up with the most beans and all with the least beans will be sentenced to death
‘Note:
1) All of the prisoners are smart, rational people ill decide on the best course of action for them
2) Their primary aim is to survive If that is not possible, they will aim to kill as many people as possible