It will be seen from the illustration that there are ten of these
checks on a ring, numbered 1 to 9 and 0. The puzzle is to divide them
into three groups without taking any off the ring, so that the first
group multiplied by the second makes the third group. For example, we
can divide them into the three groups, 2--8 9 0 7--1 5 4 6 3, by
bringing the 6 and the 3 round to the 4, but unfortunately the first
two when multiplied together do not make the third. Can you separate
them correctly? Of course you may have as many of the checks as you
like in any group. The puzzle calls for some ingenuity, unless you
have the luck to hit on the answer by chance.
88.--DIGITAL DIVISION.
It is another good puzzle so to arrange the nine digits (the nought
excluded) into two groups so that one group when divided by the other
produces a given number without remainder. For example, 1 3 4 5 8
divided by 6 7 2 9 gives 2. Can the reader find similar arrangements
producing 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 respectively? Also, can he find the
pairs of smallest possible numbers in each case? Thus, 1 4 6 5 8 divided
by 7 3 2 9 is just as correct for 2 as the other example we have given,
but the numbers are higher.
89.--ADDING THE DIGITS.
If I write the sum of money, L987, 5s. 41/2d., and add up the digits,
they sum to 36. No digit has thus been used a second time in the amount
or addition. This is the largest amount possible under the conditions.
Now find the smallest possible amount, pounds, shillings, pence, and
farthings being all represented. You need not use more of the nine
digits than you choose, but no digit may be repeated throughout. The
nought is not allowed.
90.--THE CENTURY PUZZLE.
Can you write 100 in the form of a mixed number, using all the nine
digits once, and only once? The late distinguished French mathematician,
Edouard Lucas, found seven different ways of doing it, and expressed his
doubts as to there being any other ways. As a matter of fact there are
just eleven ways and no more. Here is one of them, 91+5742/638. Nine of
the other ways have similarly two figures in the integral part of the
number, but the eleventh expression has only one figure there. Can the
reader find this last form?
91.--MORE MIXED FRACTIONS.
When I first published my solution to the last puzzle, I was led to
attempt the expression of all numbers in turn up to 100 by a mixed
fraction containing all the nine digits. Here are twelve numbers for the
reader to try his hand at: 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 27, 36, 40, 69, 72,
94. Use every one of the nine digits once, and only once, in every case.
92.--DIGITAL SQUARE NUMBERS.
Here are the nine digits so arranged that they form four square numbers:
9, 81, 324, 576. Now, can you put them all together so as to form a
single square number--(I) the smallest possible, and (II) the largest
possible?
93.--THE MYSTIC ELEVEN.
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