Math Is Fun Forum

I *think* stewie said "You are a doof, you are of the Cats and you don't have a snake"

Cool. Can I have a copy of Witty.php ?

Right on, big dude!

Austin81's original question read "MAY use each digit only once", so the first and last solution by Mohit is right I think.

Yeah, its close sometimes

OK, good enough. So long as it wasn't the PM figuring the next Budget I'm safe.

Perhaps it did the Octahedrons !!

So, we are asking how many 830s go into 195

It is going to be less than 1, so we need to put some extra decimal places:

830 ) 195.000

First step is to guess where to start. Largest multiple of 830 that isn't TOOO big. 2 x 830 = 1660, so 0.2 x 830 = 166 is a good starting point"

            0.2
830 ) 195.000
         166.000

Now we have see how much is left to go:

            0.2
830 ) 195.000
         166.000
           29.000

So let's work on the 29: 3 x 830 = 2490:

            0.23
830 ) 195.000
         166.000
           29.000
           24.9
             4.1

So let's work on the 4.1: 4 x 830 = 3320:

            0.234
830 ) 195.000
         166.000
           29.000
           24.9
             4.10
             3.32
             0.78

Ohh, thats far enough !!   

19.5 / 83 = 195/830 = 0.234

Phew, I thought it was just me confused

Is that a Jelly Baby?

And so says Mr T !!