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    Pick three test values - calculate differences (why are only three listed?) - and then the product. Can you find an exception? The question is "Why not?".

    The second half of the question is about multiples of three. Can you 'categorise' numbers in terms of their relationship to mulltiples of three and how does this help?

    Have you seen the problem Take Three from Five ?