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What number are you thinking of?

What number are you thinking of?-example-1
User Campfire
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Try it! Suppose the number I'm thinking of is 49.


The product of 49 and 7 is 343; we subtract 3 from that, obtaining 340.


Divide this 340 by 13: 340/13.


Double this quotient: 680/13

680 + 390

Add 30 to this result: 680/13 + 30 = ------------------ = 1070/13

13


Sadly, this is not 50, as we'd hoped.

Why don't you try doing this yourself? Would you do anything differently from the way I did it?


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