There is a set of cubes of three different colors: red, blue and yellow and their edges are of integer length.
In the following statements the bold capital letters refer to specific digits with a one-to-one correspondence of digit to letter.
The volume of each red cube is NIL.
The face of each blue cube has NO area.
The volume of each yellow cube is ZERO.
The total volume of all the cubes is NOTHING.
There are NO cubes of one of the colors, and NONE of another.
How many cubes are there of the remaining color, and what is that color?
There are NO yellow cubes, and there are NONE of the red cubes; thus there INZNT ("isn't?") blue cubes to be seen.
NIL = 125; red side length = 5; volume = 53
NO = 16; blue side length = 4; area = 42
ZERO = 4096; yellow side length = 16; volume = 163
NONE = 1610;
INZNT = 21413;
NOTHING = 1637218; 1610*53 + 16*163 + 21413*43
= 201250 + 65536 + 1370432
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Posted by Dej Mar
on 2007-10-30 11:20:47 |