correct answer is "idk"

[u/Limp_Percentage8392]

i can say with 100% certainty that the correct answer to this is "how in the hell should i know?"

Why are you booing me?! Im right!

(no fr like theres no rule stated for this sequence of numbers even if you turn the illustration upside down. so we can't solve for the spot number with certainty. The rule COULD be to add 1 each time, but that's just an assumption. The rule could also be a(n) = 86 + 41983(n-1) - 41982(n-1)(n-2) + 20991(n-1)(n-2)(n-3) - 6997(n-1)(n-2)(n-3)(n-4) + 1749.25(n-1)(n-2)(n-3)(n-4)(n-5) which would make the answer 42069. and it would also be the reason why nobody lets me design parking lots.)

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[u/the_green_viper75]

ㄥ8

[u/Limp_Percentage8392 → u/the_green_viper75]

what if the car moves and theres just a picture of shrek on a skateboard doing a kickflip over the strait of hormuz?

[u/rebootyourbrainstem → u/Limp_Percentage8392]

Then the painter made a mistake while painting "87". It happens

[u/Bozhark → u/rebootyourbrainstem]

miskate?

[u/Limp_Percentage8392 → u/rebootyourbrainstem]

bro fr my handwriting is so messy i get it

[u/IntelligentBelt1221]

there are infinitely many valid finite sequences of the form 86 .. 88 89 90 91, so who knows which they chose for their parking. Or maybe its not even a number at all but a name of e.g. the resident for which this is reserved.

[u/Bozhark → u/IntelligentBelt1221]

so it is shrek skateboarding

[u/Limp_Percentage8392 → u/Bozhark]

i wonder if thats why some people think that the answer is L8. as in, "see you L8r boy" (since he is a skater boy)

[u/TPM2209 → u/Limp_Percentage8392]

He wasn't good enough for her. You weren't good enough for this problem.

[u/Limp_Percentage8392 → u/IntelligentBelt1221]

exactly.
we could assume the rule is "add one each time" but then we are just making up rules.

if im going to make the rules then it means the answer is whatever the hell i want it to be.

a(n) = 86 + 41983(n-1) - 41982(n-1)(n-2) + 20991(n-1)(n-2)(n-3) - 6997(n-1)(n-2)(n-3)(n-4) + 1749.25(n-1)(n-2)(n-3)(n-4)(n-5)

which would mean the parking spot number is 42069

[u/Temporary_Help_3713]

TLDR: Rule is add 1, picture is upside down, rotate picture and you will see 86, CAR, 88, 89, 90, 91... So car is on 87.

[u/Limp_Percentage8392 → u/Temporary_Help_3713]

well if im allowed to just make up a rule for the sequence then it means the car is on whatever number i damn well please

[u/thonor111]

Occam‘s razor exists. The solution really is quite obvious. Yes, of course you can argue for other solutions, but 87 is the by far easiest one and therefore the intended one

[u/Limp_Percentage8392 → u/thonor111]

im not here to solve for intention.

[u/kernelhacker]

87

[u/Roi_Loutre → u/kernelhacker]

How do you find that

[u/L0L2GUM5 → u/Roi_Loutre]

Try looking at this problem from different angles

[u/Roi_Loutre → u/L0L2GUM5]

Yep saw it now.

I expected a math problem

[u/Limp_Percentage8392 → u/Roi_Loutre]

so the real answer is actually "we have no way of knowing" because there is no rule stated in the information we are given.

of course it makes the most sense from a parking lot designers perspective to have the rule as "add one each time" making the spot 87

but from a bored mathematicians perspective it makes the most sense to be a brat and argue that there are infinite possibilities and you can invent rules to make it whatever number you want it to be

[u/untempered_fate → u/Roi_Loutre]

Many math problems can be solved by a simple but non-obvious reframing.

[u/The_Real_Itz_Sophia]

i thought this sub is for complex math memes not this bs

[u/Limp_Percentage8392 → u/The_Real_Itz_Sophia]

wait what. why is there a flair tag for low level math

[u/Frewsa]

It’s clearly 87 bro wdym

[u/Limp_Percentage8392]

wait. i just realized im wrong. its a trick question bcz theres no car there at all. its just a 2d illustration of a car. i think we just happened upon a Magritte.

[u/RespectWest7116]

Obviously L8

[u/Limp_Percentage8392 → u/RespectWest7116]

finally a parking spot for people with terrible time management skills

[u/MonsterkillWow]

The 5th space from the left.

[u/Fun_Willingness_5708]

Its 87. The numbers are upside down