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Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Word Problems..... It all adds up
Found these on the Futility Closet blog... I use to love these in my youth...remember send+more=money??? sort of the same only the words in this one add up... a nice plus.
I will post the answers in a comment... enjoy
2 comments:
Here are the answers direct from the blog at futility closet,
621
846
9071
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10538
(The first problem is unfortunately ambiguous — W, V, and N can be any combination of 2, 4, and 7.) (Thanks, Claudio.)
the second answer is
106+19722+82524=102352
The second is also ambiguous, O and N may be 6 and 4 or 4 and 6.
Jonathan
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