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What price glory? (Posted on 2020-08-12) Difficulty: 3 of 5
A drawer is divided into 9 square boxes, creating a 3*3 grid.
Your task is to create a "magic square" by putting a distinct amount of money in each of the boxes in a way that all of the 8 sums (vertical, horizontal and diagonal) will be the same.
Only standard American coins are allowed, i.e. 1,5,10,25,50, and 100c.

What is the minimal amount of coins ?
Show their distribution.

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Working left to right, top to bottom

Boxes

10  45  20
35  25  15
30   5  40

containing 1+3+2+2+1+2+2+1+3=17 coins.

  Posted by xdog on 2020-08-12 10:34:53
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