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What number?

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r

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What number, when added to a number 10 times as big, gives a number that, when its right-hand digit is multiplied by four and added to the result of the above, gives 1000?

-Ray.

g

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88

88+880=986

986+4*6=986+32=1000

r

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Originally posted by garethn
88

88+880=986

986+4*6=986+32=1000
Well done!

I'll have to take some marks off for the typos in your solution, but the number 88 is correct. 🙂

-Ray.

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Oops!

88

88+880=968

968+4*8=968+32=1000

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