Highest and Lowest

Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

As is often the case with solving problems, there are several ways of looking at the problem. For example, Mark from St Johns, Walsall Wood kept the digits separate and did:

"Highest: $3 \times4 \times5 \times6 = 360$

Lowest: $3 - 4 \times5 \times6 = - 117$"

But Jason from Dunstable put some digits together:

"I made the highest number $3258$ by simply multiplying $543$ by $6$.

I made the lowest number $-651$ by simply subtracting $654$ from $3$".


Published April 1999.