1% Club

[barry1010]

It seems to be getting easier every week. 

Or is it just that the questions seem to follow a formula and I'm used to them?

[-SharonA-]

Didn't get the chicken question.

[barry1010]

I didn't get the 1% question and to be honest I didn't understand it, and still don't 

[elliemay1]

barry, this seems to be the easiest solution to understand:

//Look at the list of 1+2+3+4+…+97+98+99+100 and fold it in half (since there are an even number of numbers) so then you have 1+2+3+4+… on top of 100+99+98+97+… and the adding them together you get 101+101+101+101…(50 times) or 50 X 101 = 5050.//

[grumpy01]

Why does anyone watch anything with Lee Mack in it?

[elliemay1]

I take it you don't like him, grumpy!

[grumpy01]

Correct Ellie May

[barry1010]

Thank you, Ellie.

Now I understand it, but I will never grasp how other people understand how to work it out. 

I know enough to understand interest rates, balance accounts and calculate how much carpet and rolls of wallpaper I need, beyond that I'm drowning 

 

[barry1010]

I'll never understand why people feel compelled to comment on things that don't interest them, but I don't really want to know.

[ToraToraTora]

22:46, yes in general terms Total = (N/2)*(N+1) so 1 to 100 = 50*101.

[elliemay1]

I agree, barry, that the questions seem to follow a similar pattern every week and you get used to them. BTW, what was the chicken qn, I can't recall it?

[Cloverjo]

The chicken question had the number of letters in the words increasing by one each time.

 

[elliemay1]

Thanks Cloverjo, I vaguely remember that now, not a great qn IMO

[THECORBYLOON]

For any sequence of consecutive numbers, not only starting from one, it's the first number (F) and last number (L) added together, multiplied by half the amount of numbers (N) in that sequence.

= (F + L) × N/2

 

 

[Cloverjo]

I was a bit concerned about the letter 'r' question. I wonder if some contestants got it wrong because they thought the capital R didn't count as an 'r'.

[elliemay1]

That's a good point, Cloverjo

[naomi24]

I can't remember the sentence but the last word had three 'Rs' in it - and the question asked for words with only two.  Maybe those who got it wrong added those three in.

[barry1010]

Yes, that word was 'carrier', Bradley said it tripped him up in rehearsals.

I can't remember if the question stressed 'only two' or not. It could be argued that carrier does have two rs

[bhg481]

It tripped me up; the question said exactly two r's so 3 r's eliminated carrier. We always record the programme so that we can FF past the drivel, so I replayed it to check.

[barry1010]

Thanks, bhg

[naomi24]

That was it, bhg.  Thanks.  I remembered it because we picked up on it at the time.