What's the Logic of this Application using Math

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The application in question utilizes a binary questioning method to deduce a user's age based on their responses to four screens displaying numbers. Each screen prompts the user with a question regarding the presence of their age among the displayed numbers, with responses of "Yes" or "No" providing one bit of information per question. However, the current design appears insufficient, as it only narrows down a list of 100 potential ages to approximately 6-7 candidates after four queries, suggesting that additional screens or queries are necessary for accurate identification.

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Here i attached some mobile application screenshots
I want to know the logic of this application

1:- It have four screens and every screen have numbers.
2:-Application asked on every screen "Do you Know your age is here in these numbers".
3:-If i see the number is on the screen then i pressed "Yes" otherwise press "NO".
4:-This procedure repeat 4 times and application fined out the number or age that is in my mind.

Help me the Logic of this Application using Math.
 

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It would be helpful if we had access to all four screens so that we could compare and figure out how the algorithm is operating. One and a half screens are not enough.

Also, the links to the attachments are irrelevant to this question.
 
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It seems to be a binary test. Each yes/no answer provides only one bit of information, which trims any list down to a 16th of the original list. From a list of 100, that still leaves 6-7 values after 4 pages. Don't see how it can work without 3 more queries.
 
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Halc said:
It seems to be a binary test. Each yes/no answer provides only one bit of information, which trims any list down to a 16th of the original list. From a list of 100, that still leaves 6-7 values after 4 pages. Don't see how it can work without 3 more queries.
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Seems to me you get more than one bit's worth of info per screen but not enough to do it in 4 screens.
 

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