Scratch Off Math Puzzle

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oate — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:41:47 GMT

You got it.

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Mr-B 216 — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:19:40 GMT

$1, $4, and $9

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Murgatroyd — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 22:35:47 GMT

One of them has to be $1. There are three possibilities that would give those numbers, and all of them involve a 1.

Scratch Off Math Puzzle

oate — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:57:12 GMT

Here's a lottery-themed variation of a puzzle I saw at work a while back.

Your lottery retailer has a crazy new kind of customer ticket scanning machine that works like this: You have to put at least two scratch offs inside it, and then the machine will display a number that is either the sum of the prizes or the product of the prizes. (Assume prizes amounts are whole number dollar amounts, e.g., 0, 1, 2, etc.)

You don't get to choose whether it gives you the sum or the product; the machin... [ More ]