Monday 17 June 2013

Doubly True Alphametics

Dear children,

During the March Holidays, I introduced you to alphametics, whereby alphabets were used to represent unique numbers in a sum. Today, I shall share with you another type of alphametics that is especially interesting. They are called doubly true alphametics. Reason being, not only do they each fit a unique number, the statement they make in numbers is true as well. Below is an example:


 THREE
 THREE
   TWO
   TWO
+  ONE
------
ELEVEN
 
3 + 3 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 11 is true as well! 
 
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For those who solved the previous puzzle, the answer is 
5 x 7 + 9 = 44 indeed (well done!)  


Regards,
Miss Chan

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