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My daughters maths homework is driving us barmy,please can anyone help?
Either her teacher is trying to be clever by setting a task that is impossible to do or we are missing something, try to work this out
You have to make 24 from these four numbers 1,6,9,11.You can do this by any means only using each number once, please help

This item was edited on Saturday, 25th September 2004, 15:03

Any chance she`s copied it off the board wrong or something? 1,6,6,11 is easy, but the closest I can get to 24 with the 9 is:

11 / 6 = 1.83
1.83 + 1 = 2.83
2.83 x 9 = 25.47

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This item was edited on Friday, 24th September 2004, 20:39

hi
dont know how old ur daughter is but the only way i can solve 24 is
1. square the 6 ie(6x6) =36
2. Sqare root 9 = 3
3. divide 36/3 = 12
4. Add altogether 12+1+11= 24 8) 8) 8)

hope this helps!!!

This item was edited on Friday, 24th September 2004, 21:16

What age range are we talking? Is it likely to be a miss copy as XfilesGurly suggest, or are we looking at powers, square roots etc?

A round of applause for DVD_SCORPION then!! :D:D:D

I thought each number could only be used once and 6 squared would be using 6 twice: like on Countdown, you can`t do it that way.

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My daughters 11 and only just started comprehensive school,she has phoned her friends and the numbers are correct so you can see why it`s driving us george bush,thanks for trying i`ll let you know how many teeth the teacher looses on monday...lol.

Are you sugesting we help your daughter cheat :o by giving her the answer.

Tut tut. You are a bad parent ;)

All the best,

The 42%er.


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This is going to drive me nuts all day. Where`s Carol Vorderman when you need her?

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You have to make 24 from these four numbers 1,6,9,11.You can do this by any means please help
Is that last number definitely 11? not another 2 1`s?

then it becomes easy too, with
1+1=2x1=2
2x9=18+6=24

if you can use the numbers more than once as suggested, then there`s tons of ways to do 24...
..now I`m gonna get a headache! lol

Jimbo : oÞ