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makes all the numbers from 1 to 38. |
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makes all the numbers from 1 to 39. |
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makes all the numbers from 1 to 40, |
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makes all the numbers from 1 to 43. |
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makes all the numbers from 1 to 45. |
Students from Riccarton High School's entered the six numbers in the cells of a spreadsheet which then reproduced the numbers in six columns with the total on the right. It is then necessary to go through deleting some numbers on each line to give the totals 1 to 45 as in Ali Abu-Hijleh's solution below.
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makes all the numbers from 1 to 45, |
as shown in the following table:
| Composite numbers | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | 2 | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 4 | |||||
| 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||
| 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | |||
| 8 | 8 | |||||
| 9 | 9 | |||||
| 1 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| 9 | 2 | 11 | ||||
| 1 | 9 | 2 | 12 | |||
| 1 | 8 | 4 | 13 | |||
| 1 | 9 | 4 | 14 | |||
| 9 | 2 | 4 | 15 | |||
| 1 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 16 | ||
| 8 | 9 | 17 | ||||
| 1 | 8 | 9 | 18 | |||
| 8 | 9 | 2 | 19 | |||
| 1 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 20 | ||
| 21 | 21 | |||||
| 1 | 21 | 22 | ||||
| 8 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 23 | ||
| 1 | 21 | 2 | 24 | |||
| 21 | 4 | 25 | ||||
| 1 | 21 | 4 | 26 | |||
| 21 | 2 | 4 | 27 | |||
| 1 | 21 | 2 | 4 | 28 | ||
| 21 | 8 | 29 | ||||
| 1 | 21 | 8 | 30 | |||
| 1 | 21 | 9 | 31 | |||
| 1 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 32 | ||
| 1 | 21 | 9 | 2 | 33 | ||
| 1 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 34 | ||
| 21 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 35 | ||
| 21 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 36 | ||
| 1 | 21 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 37 | |
| 21 | 8 | 9 | 38 | |||
| 1 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 39 | ||
| 21 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 40 | ||
| 1 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 41 | |
| 21 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 42 | ||
| 1 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 43 | |
| 21 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 44 | |
| 1 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 45 |