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What is the Number ? (Posted on 2003-03-14)

Which is the number that, multiplied by 3, then increased by three-fourths of the product, divided by 7, diminished by one-third of the quotient, multiplied by itself, diminished by 52, the square root found, addition of 8, division by 10, gives the number 2 ?

Submitted by Ravi Raja

Rating: 2.6250 (8 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

The number is 28.
The method of working out this problem is to reverse the whole process (that is, working backwards) which goes as follows: multiplying 2 by 10, deducting 8, squaring the result and so on.

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Subject	Author	Date
Puzzle Solution	K Sengupta	2022-01-01 00:19:14
answer	K Sengupta	2007-03-22 11:35:54
Re:Answer	Rizwan	2006-06-18 18:22:58
Answer	Rizwan	2006-06-18 18:14:13
re: Dual Answers?	john	2005-03-04 19:56:15
?	logischer Verstand	2004-04-18 22:30:58
technically speaking	Jack Squat	2004-01-08 14:12:03
Algebraically speaking .....	mathemagician	2003-07-04 04:56:10
Dual Answers?	mathemagician	2003-07-04 04:26:50
better?	DJ	2003-03-19 10:01:57
solution	luvya2003	2003-03-15 13:43:23
No Subject	praveen	2003-03-15 03:35:04

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