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9! (Posted on 2005-02-28) Difficulty: 2 of 5

Find nine single digit numbers (other than 1, 2, 3, ..., and 9) with a sum of 45 and a product of 9! (362,880).

For instance, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8 add up to 45, but their product is 645,120.

Try finding the answer without the use of a program.

See The Solution Submitted by Erik O.    
Rating: 3.0000 (1 votes)

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Solution What I did | Comment 8 of 12 |

This seemed really simple to me.  I factored the number and got 7, 5, 3^4, 2^7.  Simply pair up four 2s with the 3s to get:

2, 2, 2, 6, 6, 6, 6, 5, 7

That's nine numbers, their product is 9!, and adding them yields 45.

Woo.


  Posted by Matt on 2005-03-22 15:24:30
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