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Simple Math? (Posted on 2003-12-30) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Art and Bill were sitting around the apartment they shared, playing one of their favorite drinking games--exchanging math problems.

Bill wrote down on a piece of paper the equation below, and told Art to fill in the blanks only using each of the digits 1-6 only once, to make a valid equation.
"Easy enough," said Art, picking up a pencil. After a few minutes of wracking his head, however, he was sure Bill had had a few too many. Bill insisted he hadn't, and there is actually more than one way to do it, to which Art threw up his hands in defeat.

How many ways can you find to fill in this equation using the digits one through six, once each?
___ + ___ = ___

See The Solution Submitted by DJ    
Rating: 3.9000 (10 votes)

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re: my solution | Comment 5 of 13 |
(In reply to my solution by Lou)

you have to use all six numbers.
there are no solutions in the simple form of ab+cd=ef, theres some trick to it.
  Posted by rerun141 on 2003-12-30 21:14:34

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