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Forum Name: Middle school
Topic ID: 39
Message ID: 2
#2, RE: Solution needed to question from Dudeney's Amusements in Mathematics
Posted by Bruce Herman (Guest) on Apr-10-01 at 06:02 PM
In response to message #1
You were right on one count and wrong on another; I was able to get the solution after hours of tedious work (although it does feel good to actually get it right!). You were correct about the denominators being relatively prime, and they shouldn't be; but you were wrong about the fractions adding up to 1. Based on the problem, they added up to 2/3.