Post by schubertiad on Jan 3, 2007 18:06:52 GMT
Here is a cool (edit: incredibly sad) maths problem which a friend sent me today, and which I had to chip away at for hours before I finally got it (sending me pretty far round the bend in the process). Good luck!
Let a and b be two whole numbers between 2 and 100. Let Mr P and Mr S. be two people. Mr P knows the product ab, while Mr S knows the sum a+b. They have the following conversation:
Mr. P: I don’t know the two numbers
Mr. S: I know you don't
Mr. P: I know the numbers now!
Mr. S: Now I do, too!
Find the values for a and b.
Let a and b be two whole numbers between 2 and 100. Let Mr P and Mr S. be two people. Mr P knows the product ab, while Mr S knows the sum a+b. They have the following conversation:
Mr. P: I don’t know the two numbers
Mr. S: I know you don't
Mr. P: I know the numbers now!
Mr. S: Now I do, too!
Find the values for a and b.
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