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#1 2005-04-01 07:33:29

austin81
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Addition Problem

Given the digits 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7.How can we Construct an addition problem  whose sum is 100?(You may use each digit only once)

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#2 2005-04-05 12:53:57

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Re: Addition Problem

26 +74 = 100


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#3 2005-04-05 12:58:12

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Re: Addition Problem

14+26+53+7 = 100


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And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

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#4 2005-04-05 13:24:11

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Re: Addition Problem

Excellent ! Can't fault it. Must be right.


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#5 2005-04-06 09:56:33

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Re: Addition Problem

-Flexes his tail-


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I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

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#6 2005-04-07 05:29:41

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Re: Addition Problem

Do you have to use all of them? And how many solutions are there?

Last edited by Roraborealis (2005-04-18 03:26:11)


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#7 2005-04-07 20:19:31

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Re: Addition Problem

There's a point, How about:

16+24+53+7 = 100
16+24+57+3 = 100
17+24+53+6 = 100
etc ...


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#8 2005-04-07 23:52:30

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Re: Addition Problem

Seeing how you just muddled up the numbers, there must be hundereds.


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#9 2005-04-08 09:24:48

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Re: Addition Problem

Me? Muddle Up Numbers?


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#10 2005-04-08 23:24:16

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Re: Addition Problem

Heehee. I meant sort of switched them around.


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#11 2005-04-09 11:41:52

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Re: Addition Problem

She lies! She had a secret innuendo in there somewhere!


Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

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#12 2005-04-09 21:20:07

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Re: Addition Problem

No, no, I didn't! *turns back on everyone and laughs evilly*


School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?

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#13 2005-04-09 23:44:51

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Re: Addition Problem

*steals her peanuts while she's looking away and cackles evilly... As evilly as a Ferret can that is.*


Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

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#14 2005-04-10 02:18:58

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Re: Addition Problem

Ack! My peanuts! I cannot find them!


School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?

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#15 2005-04-10 04:04:57

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Re: Addition Problem

Evilness. Ron took them!


Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

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#16 2005-04-10 05:25:10

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Re: Addition Problem

Rod, you mean?


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#17 2005-04-10 09:20:25

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Re: Addition Problem

I was hungry. big_smile


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#18 2005-04-11 00:15:29

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Re: Addition Problem

Yes... Rod... Not Ron.. Anyway, yep. It was he who stole your Jelly Babies. Destroy him!


Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

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#19 2005-04-11 00:31:26

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Jelly babies? Been watching the good Doctor, eh?


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#20 2005-04-11 00:32:25

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Re: Addition Problem

I think I've been listening to Insomnia too much. I meant Peanuts...


Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

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#21 2005-04-11 00:34:58

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Re: Addition Problem

what's wrong with listening to me?!?!? Are you implying something or am i infering something from your post?!?!?! ANSWER ME OR INCUR THE WRATH OF THE JELLY BABY!!!!!


Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly

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#22 2005-04-11 00:42:26

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Re: Addition Problem

Yes.


Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

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#23 2005-04-11 00:42:54

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Re: Addition Problem

Oh. Right. ok. Wow. JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYY BABY!!!


Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly

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#24 2005-04-11 02:48:41

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Re: Addition Problem

Ack! Rod! They were my precious nuts! You are in deep damnation!


School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?

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#25 2005-04-11 10:06:59

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Re: Addition Problem

But they WERE yummy.


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