What are you doing?
If the solid lines mean multiply and the dotted ones means add, can you add numbers in the empty circles? How do you do it?
Problem source: The Number Warrior. The diagram is borrowed from the same source.
If the solid lines mean multiply and the dotted ones means add, can you add numbers in the empty circles? How do you do it?
Problem source: The Number Warrior. The diagram is borrowed from the same source.
February 16th, 2010 at 2:22 am
—-6—-
2——-3
–8—9–
—-17—
4——-3
—-12—
I just looked at the factors of 6: 1, 2, 3, 6; and the factors of 12: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12; and worked through them looking for combinations that fit.