It was the seemingly simple maths puzzle that left the Internet baffled.

之前难倒一片网民的正是一道看似简单的数学题。

The equation, which uses flowers instead of numbers, went viral with thousands of Facebook users debating the correct answer.

成千上万的脸书用户就一道用花代替数字的等式问题展开了激烈的讨论。

Daily Mail Australia put it to Associate Professor Leon Poladian, from the University of Sydney's mathematics department, who came back with a solution - but even he had to admit, it was a bit of ahead-scratcher.

每日邮报澳大利亚版块找到悉尼大学数学系的副教授里昂·波拉迪安，他解决了这道难题，不过即便是他也不得不承认，这题有点伤脑筋。（确定不是费眼神？）

Professor Poladian noted that the 'trick' to the puzzle lay in that the blue flower on the final line only had four petals, not five.

波拉迪安教授指出这道题的陷阱在于最后一行中的蓝色花朵仅有4片花瓣，而非上两行的5片花瓣。

In the puzzle, which is posted as a graphic, there are three lines showing what different combinations of flowers add up to. Then a new combination is shown, with no total, and it's up to people to work out the answer.

在这道以图片形式登出的数学题中，列出了三行不同的花朵组合。而最后一行出现的新型组合没有总和，得靠人们（根据前两行的总和）算出这个答案。

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