Thursday, July 23, 2009

Interesting puzzle

Try it.
Can you guess the trick?

3 comments:

  1. Very interesting! All possible solutions 0, 6, 18, ..., 81 have the same symbols. It's just that the symbols keep changing on the table. :)

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  2. Whichever two digits that you choose, after substracting the "new number" will end up being a number which is a multiple of 9.

    With that, only one symbol will match .

    Tommy

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  3. Let the no. chosen be 10*X + Y.
    Following the operation request would lead to
    10*X + Y - (X + Y)= 9*X
    which is a multiple of 9.
    All "multiple of 9" symbols are the same. Hence there is only one answer.

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