For this challenge task, I figured out that the rule given worked for any number that I tried. It also worked for the numbers 0 and 1. The result was always the number 5. I figured out that this might be because if I removed the first and last instruction of the given rule, the answer was always 5.
I also figured out two more patterns that had a similar rule. The first pattern that I worked out required me to change up the numbers of the rule slightly:
Instead of 'Adding 3 and 4' to your chosen number, I decided to change it and make it so that you would have to 'Add 2 and 2' instead. My pattern looked something like this:
Think of a number: 10
Add 2: 12
Double: 24
Add 2: 26
Halve: 13
Take away the number you started with: 3
I continued this pattern with a variety of numbers, I tried nearly all of the numbers from 0 to 10. The result for all of the numbers I tried with was 3.
- Divya Louis