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Forum Name: Middle school
Topic ID: 39
Message ID: 4
#4, RE: Solution needed to question from Dudeney's Amusements in Mathematics
Posted by Bruce Herman (Guest) on Apr-10-01 at 00:09 AM
In response to message #3
You were right about the first assertion. Dudeney's answer was correct. The difficulty with the problem to me was the phrasology made it difficult to write the words as a mathematical sentence. Thanks for your words.