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Sum Place (Posted on 2005-03-07)

If the following are true relationships:

PANAMA + JAPAN = 5
FIJI + CUBA = 7
SWEDEN + NORWAY = 9
AUSTRIA + AUSTRALIA = 7

Then what is the corresponding value for:

CANADA + UNITED STATES = ?

Submitted by DJ

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Solution: (Hide)

9
The numbers are found by counting the number of distinct letters in the union of the two words:
PANAMA + JAPAN = 5
FIJI + CUBA = 7
SWEDEN + NORWAY = 9
AUSTRIA + AUSTRALIA = 7
CANADA + UNITED STATES = 9

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Subject	Author	Date
answer	K Sengupta	2007-11-05 23:45:02
solution	matt	2005-03-09 23:25:10
this + is = 4	Ady TZIDON	2005-03-07 19:25:44
Sum Place	Patrick D. Michael	2005-03-07 17:59:10

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