Problem Six: Forty+Ten+Ten=?
Sep 30th, 2006 by tony
Here is another interesting ‘restore the equation’ type problem. It was first asked by a New York math prof Alan Wayne who published it in the 1947 August issue of American Mathematical Monthly.
FORTY
TEN
TEN
+)
_________
SIXTY
Ain't it clever?
(I had to put 0's in front of the TEN's to make the formatting work)
Update: Solutions have been posted!
gar.. why does your name have to be tony? Now I have to be tw, haha
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