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IF 1 + 9 + 8 = 1

WHAT IS 2 + 8 + 9

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Well, it could be 2. I don't know if there's enough information to be able to say for sure.

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Originally posted by forkedknight
Well, it could be 2. I don't know if there's enough information to be able to say for sure.
I thought 2 also. The actual answer is more cute.

The order is important.

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
I thought 2 also. The actual answer is more cute.

The order is important.
Ten.

But 2 is a correct answer, too, for the question as first, imprecisely, stated.

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Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Ten.

But 2 is a correct answer, too, for the question as first, imprecisely, stated.
2 is a valid answer. It is not the correct answer.

10 is correct.

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
2 is a valid answer. It is not the correct answer.

10 is correct.
I dispute your interpretation of the word "correct". If you'd used "desired", or "Mgt.-mandated", you'd have been right. But given the problem as stated in your first post, 2 is exactly as correct as 10 - if not more so.

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How is the answer derived?

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Originally posted by Duncan Clarke
How is the answer derived?

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ONE
NINE
EIGHT

TWO
EIGHT
NINE

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
[b]ONE
NINE
EIGHT

TWO
EIGHT
NINE[/b]
Groan🙂

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Here, let me give another example following the same rule:

... oh, wait, there are no more examples 🙁

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Groan🙂
I can do worse than that!

What's
A + 10 + 8 + 8 + 9

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Originally posted by wolfgang59
I can do worse than that!

What's
A + 10 + 8 + 8 + 9
18

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Originally posted by sonhouse
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Full marks!
That's the cheesiest problem I could think of.

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