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  • abextra
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    Thank you for your help again, Monique!
    I've been thinking about it - and I'm 100% sure I would never solve this puzzle myself! Well done everyone who understands it!

    And so, in five days I've got answers to three rounds already! Not bad!
    Last edited by abextra; 15 July 2008, 01:30 PM.

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  • Monique
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    Originally Posted by abextra View Post
    Oh, okey, it's over my low level...

    Thank you so much for your help, ladies!

    Awww Abextra I'm sure that's not true!

    Ok to be complete... the previous clue still leaves you with more than one possible answer.

    But then Oliver says
    That I knew and now I do know the numbers.
    This means that the product (he knows) can only be decomposed in factors with a sum under 14... and that solves the puzzle.

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  • abextra
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    Originally Posted by Monique View Post
    look at the possible pairs with their sum and products

    means that the sum - that Gordon knows - is associated with "admissible" pairs only. If there was one pair of primes associated with that sum, Gordon could not be certain. And the sum is less than 14 ...
    Oh, okey, it's over my low level...

    Thank you so much for your help, ladies!

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  • Monique
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    Originally Posted by abextra View Post
    Thank you for the answers, Snookersfun!
    Lol, , not much follows for me...

    look at the possible pairs with their sum and products

    Gordon: I knew that. The sum is smaller than 14.
    means that the sum - that Gordon knows - is associated with "admissible" pairs only. If there was one pair of primes associated with that sum, Gordon could not be certain. And the sum is less than 14 ...

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  • abextra
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    Thank you for the answers, Snookersfun!
    Originally Posted by snookersfun View Post
    and while at it, the answer to R 325:
    The numbers are 2 & 9.

    The first line from Oliver means that the numbers cannot both be prime.... and everything follows from there...
    Lol, , not much follows for me...

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  • snookersfun
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    Originally Posted by snookersfun View Post
    R. 324: Algebra
    please find numeric solutions to
    a)
    -SEND
    -MORE
    ------
    MONEY


    b) AlFA+BETA+GAMA=DELTA (find one of several possible solutions)

    and I just edit in part c) now:

    ABCB - DEFC = GAFB
    -: ----- + ----- -
    DH - x -- AB = -- IEI
    -------------------------
    GGE +- DEBB = DHDG
    the answers to this question are:

    a) 9567+1085 = 10652

    b) 5705+2485+6595=14785

    c) A=3,B=8,C=0,D=1,E=4,F=5,G=2,H=7,I=6

    curtesy of Mon's answers fished out of my PMs now

    and while at it, the answer to R 325:
    The numbers are 2 & 9.

    The first line from Oliver means that the numbers cannot both be prime.... and everything follows from there...


    leaving R. 326 open, as requested, but did find Mon's answer as well, so no need to redo

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  • abextra
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    Originally Posted by davis_greatest View Post
    A clue for round 321, then. First find the 15 triangles that give Gwendoline 15 bananas before Barry comes to play. Then find which 4 balls she takes away, to leave herself with 11 bananas and Barry with 4...

    A nice picture up here would be great.
    Hi, d_g, thank you for the clue!

    15 is a big number of triangles to make from 10 balls... anyone knows how to get this many?
    Attached Files

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  • dantuck_7
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    Leave R326 open for a while - as I'll have a look at that tomorrow.

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  • davis_greatest
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    Originally Posted by abextra View Post
    Could somebody please kindly post the answers and explanations to the latest questions
    (Rounds 321, 323 - 329)?
    Some of them have been opened for three months already! Thanks.
    A clue for round 321, then. First find the 15 triangles that give Gwendoline 15 bananas before Barry comes to play. Then find which 4 balls she takes away, to leave herself with 11 bananas and Barry with 4...

    A nice picture up here would be great.

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  • abextra
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    Originally Posted by Monique View Post
    Here is the answer for R323 ...

    192 384 576
    219 438 657
    273 546 819
    327 654 981

    (I had to do it again ... couldn't find my archives!)
    Thank you so much, Monique! I misunderstood this question completely.
    Sorry for the trouble.

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  • Monique
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    Here is the answer for R323 ...

    192 384 576
    219 438 657
    273 546 819
    327 654 981

    (I had to do it again ... couldn't find my archives!)

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  • abextra
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    Originally Posted by Monique View Post
    329 just opened a few days ago ... I know of at least one member who's still working on it. So not yet!
    Oh, I see. That's a good news!
    But what about the earlier rounds, Monique? Anyone? Hope the answers are not a secret or something!

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  • Monique
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    329 just opened a few days ago ... I know of at least one member who's still working on it. So not yet!

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  • abextra
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    Could somebody please kindly post the answers and explanations to the latest questions
    (Rounds 321, 323 - 329)?
    Some of them have been opened for three months already! Thanks.

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  • abextra
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    Congratulations, JaneDoe, and welcome to the group!
    Well done everybody.

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