SASMO 2027 · Grades 2-3 · SET 017 · Self-study Question 22

A coded operation satisfies 2 ⊗ 3 = 49, 3 ⊗ 2 = 94 and 4 ⊗ 3 = 169. What is 3 ⊗ 5? In the duplicate source, the same code is written with * instead of ⊗.

Infer the intended simple code from all three examples. These finitely many examples do not uniquely determine every possible invented rule.