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- From: John.Feltham@f706.n640.z3.fidonet.org (John Feltham)
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- Subject: Cycle 2 solutions Grade 7&8 Problems
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 11:11:00 PDT
- Organization: FidoNet node 3:640/706 - Coral Sea, Townsville Qld Australia
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- G'day Julie,
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- Tuesday November 17 1992 13:24, Julie Rosenoff wrote to Carol Hooper:
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- > We thought it was hard to find words for some of the dollar
- > amounts. So one way we tried was to find the factors of that
- > number and play with the letters we got that way. For e.g.:
- > 40 40
- > / \ / \
- > 4 10 2 20
- > (D) (J) (B) (T)
- > / \ / \
- > 2 2 2 5
- > (B) (B)(B) (E)
-
- > We knew we could use "A" any time because multiplying by one
- > comes out the same number. So we chose the second way of
- > looking at 40 and added and A to get "BAT." .... etc....
-
- Well done. I particularly like the method that you have depicted above. Doing it that way really allows people to see how to solve the problem.
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