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#1 2020-04-11 09:31:15

Nasir Hassan
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Registered: 2020-04-11
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9-Digit Number Puzzle

Your solution is 473816952.  However, the question states that rounding is done alternatively - up, down, up ....  With 2 as the units digit, the 1st rounding will be down, not up.

My solution is 536192748. It's divisible by 6 and 7, and the alternative rounding starting from up then down etc  gives 53619 0000, with digits adding up to24.  Where's the flaw in this answer?  Unless the number 4 becomes 5 after the 1st round up, and the number 7 does't round down to 7 because of the 5?

Regards

Nasir

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#2 2020-04-11 20:09:28

Bob
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Re: 9-Digit Number Puzzle

hi Nasir Hassan

Welcome to the forum.

I agree that your solution is better.  The one given would be ok if the question read "it rounds in an alternate pattern (down, up, down ...).  I don't have any editorial control over the MIF site so I'll message the boss and suggest a re-write.

Best wishes, stay safe,

Bob


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#3 2020-04-19 12:59:53

MathsIsFun
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Re: 9-Digit Number Puzzle

Your solution is right Nasir, thank you!

And Bob is right, the old solution (473816952) works when the rounding starts at down, then up, etc

Will amend.


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#4 2020-04-19 13:17:52

MathsIsFun
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Re: 9-Digit Number Puzzle

Here is the amended puzzle:

https://www.mathsisfun.com/puzzles/9-digit-number-solution.html

Please check!


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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