Emma estimates well, but wins by default

Emma guesses that Alex is 45 years old, and that he was born on Christmas day.

Presumably intending to work out how many days are in four and a half years and then multiply that by 10, she roughly multiplies 9 by 365 to come up with 3,000, then halves that to arrive at 1,500. However, she then forgets to multiply it by 10, but realises that the number she has is way too low.

She presumably realises her mistake and performs the calculation, before adding some extra on top, because she then guesses that Alex will be 17,223 days old on Christmas Day 2024.

In the studio, Alex states that the correct answer was 17,538 days (this is incorrect; see the notes on the task page) and that Emma was 293 days out (this is also incorrect; again, see the notes on the task page). Emma wins the task by default, anyway, since Jack had refused to give an answer.

(Written by Karl Craven and proofread by M3 / Andres Sanchez)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)