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Article #347Cycle 2 solutions Grade 7&8 Problems
From: John Feltham
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:11
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:11
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G'day Julie,
Tuesday November 17 1992 13:24, Julie Rosenoff wrote to Carol Hooper:
> We thought it was hard to find words for some of the dollar
> amounts. So one way we tried was to find the factors of that
> number and play with the letters we got that way. For e.g.:
> 40 40
> / \ / \
> 4 10 2 20
> (D) (J) (B) (T)
> / \ / \
> 2 2 2 5
> (B) (B)(B) (E)
> We knew we could use "A" any time because multiplying by one
> comes out the same number. So we chose the second way of
> looking at 40 and added and A to get "BAT." .... etc....
Well done. I particularly like the method that you have depicted above. Doing it that way really allows people to see how to solve the problem.
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