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@bigdogg saidI'm going to spoiler this whole answer, except for a few hints.
There is an 11-car train. The sum of passengers for any 3 consecutive cars is 99. There are 381 total passengers.
How many passengers are in car #9?
The first three carriages together must have 99 passengers total. Let's call them A, B and C, so A+B+C=99.
Now The whole train is , and carriage 9 is , the 9th carriage, We cannot determine the numbers for the other carriages, except that , and each .
@shallow-blue saidSOLV'D
I'm going to spoiler this whole answer, except for a few hints.
The first three carriages together must have 99 passengers total. Let's call them A, B and C, so A+B+C=99.
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@shallow-blue saidI enjoyed it as well. Takes some thought, but not overly difficult.
It was a nice one.
