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A square is marked by adding 4 numbers t a calendar.(A).See the sum of these numbers. (B).When a square is adding 5numbers to the calendar. the sum of the numbers is 44.What are the numbers? The numbers is the square are 2, 3, 9 and 10. |
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Answer» Step-by-step explanation: The first thing to notice is the given fact that all the numbers are in a square of a calendar. This is very important because, although it doesn’t directly give us values for any of the numbers, it directly gives us information on the relationship between them. In a calendar, the number directly to the right of a chosen number (let’s have it be x) will be exactly one more than x. Hence, we can assign our first two numbers the respective values of x and x+1. Next, we jump down exactly one row from our first number, x. Because calendars show each row with exactly one row, we KNOW that the number directly under x will be 7 more, because it is exactly a week later. This number would therefore be ASSIGNED the value of x+7. Using the same logic we used when we found x+1, we can derive our last value: x+8. The second piece of information states that the sum of all the numbers is 80. We plug that number in… 80 = (x) + (x+1) + (x+7) + (x+8) Combining like terms, it follows that… 80 = 4x + 16 Subtracting 16 from both sides gives us… 64 = 4x Dividing by 4 on both sides RESULTS in… x = 16 Now that we have our x value, we can simply add 1, 7, and 8, respectively, to 16 to GET our solution: The set of numbers is [16, 17, 23, 24] |
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