I had trouble cracking this little puzzle from an elementary school 'math olympiad'. Find the missing number '?' in this array:
$\begin{bmatrix} 4 & 1 & 2\\2 & 6 & 4\\3 & 2 & ?\end{bmatrix}$
Of course the real problem doesn't involve matrices. It's just a 3 by 3 grid with numbers. Somehow I an unable to find any pattern in this array.
If you look at the $2\times2$ block you see that those $3$ which we are able to calculate all sum up to $13$. If you put $1$ in the "?". Then that $2\times2$ block also sums up to $13$.