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OlderButNotWiser | 17:46 Fri 05th Dec 2014 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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7 times X times a 5 figure number always gives an answer consisting of Xs, and it dosn't matter what number is used for the X. What is the 5 figure number?
Anybody any ideas on this one please
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GM - The question says: "There's a mystery 5-figure number which, when multiplied both by 7 and by any single-digit number, always produces an answer where every digit is the same as that single-digit number. What's that mystery 5-figure number?" Taking 4 as an example for the single-digit number, that means that 28 (= 7 x 4) times the mystery number must come...
18:14 Fri 05th Dec 2014
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// How is it that Chris (and myself) understands the question and nobody else does? //

because he read the question

and so many others didnt before they went 'meh?'
18:20 Fri 05th Dec 2014
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blimey well done Chris

king of Math !
18:22 Fri 05th Dec 2014
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Where I went wrong (once I worked out what was probably meant) was to assume the 5 digits applied to the "answer consisting ox xs" also. Bad assumption. Gave me a decimal fraction not an integer. Well I'm getting old; in my old age. That's my excuse.
18:22 Fri 05th Dec 2014
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Thank you so much Buenchico, have now posted another Maths question.
20:01 Fri 05th Dec 2014
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Thanks Buenchico thats brilliant with a great explanation as to how to get the answer.
09:47 Sat 06th Dec 2014

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