What number is three times half of itself?
Category: Brain · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Think about the properties of numbers.
Answer
0
Explanation
If x is the number, then 3 * (x/2) = x implies x must be zero for the equation to hold true.
This is a expert brain riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is 0.
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