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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Are You Smarter Than a Third Grader?

My oldest grandson John, age 8, made up the following math puzzler for me to work on during our recent visit. I did manage to solve it after working on it for awhile, but found it a challenge.

Here are his clues:

1. The correct answer is larger than 999, but less than 10,000.

2. The sum of the all the numbers, added together, is 16.

3. Multiply the last two digits and you get a "0".

4. The second digit, minus 3, is the correct number for the third digit.

5. The first digit is 1.

If you can figure out the answer to this third grader's puzzler, post it below in the comment section, and I'll confirm it here in a couple of days!

P.S. Monday, October 28: Congratulations to two friends from New York state who responded via comments (below) along with Brad Yoder, Chad Heatwole, Clint Yoder, Janice Miller, Brad Lehman, Elizabeth Vredevelt, Rosemary Hunsberger, Dale Gingrich and Lester Blank for submitting the correct answer, 1960. This means you are at least as smart as a third grader!

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3 comments:

  1. TomOctober 27, 2013 at 8:13 AM

    The answer is 1960 (I think). I had to work on it for a while though. Nice to get my aging mind working.
    Tom

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  2. Eric. KOctober 27, 2013 at 9:12 AM

    1960

    My dad sent me here.

    Congratulations to John for a fun little puzzle.

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  3. harvspotNovember 3, 2013 at 8:56 AM

    Thanks everyone, and for all of you who sent me email answers or responded in person (see P. S. above). One nice thing about the puzzle is that it's easy to verify for yourself that you have the right answer.

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