Everyone who sent in answers had to think about how to show the
order of each little calculation. Some wrote down the answer after
each step, some used the 'rule' that any multiplying and dividing
should be done before the adding and subtracting, and some put
brackets around bits that had to be done first.
All of the calculations shown below lead to 100 - but you could
think about whether they have chosen the best way to write their
answers.
Rayner Teo (Year 5, Tao Nan School, Singapore)
sent in these two:
1 x 2 x 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 x 9 = 100
123 + 45 - 67 + 8 - 9 = 100
Christopher Block (Age 10, Tattingstone
School)
"First of all I put down the numbers 1 to 9 on a bit of paper and
kept adding, multiplying, dividing and subtracting until I got the
right answer and these are what I came up with."
9 x 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 100
7 x 9 x 2 - 6 -5 - 4 - 3 - 8 x 1 = 100
Rowena Scott 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +5 x 6 - 7 + 8 + 9
=100
I just tried some sums until I found one that worked.
Helena Manning (Age 10, Tattingstone
School)
7 x 8 ÷ 4 x 6 + 1 + 3 + 5 + 9 - 2 = 100
Sally Hutton (Age 11, Tattingstone
School)
1 x 2 + 3 x 4 x 5 - 6 + 7 + 8 - 9 = 100
Gina Allison and Kate Fletcher
(Year 5, Yarm Primary School, Stockton-on-Tees)
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James Dixon (Year 5, Yarm Primary School,
Stockton-on-Tees)
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Jessica Cattermole (Age 11, Tattingstone
School, UK) "... I played around with the numbers ... until I had
500 which I could divide by 5."
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Jason Day (Priory School, UK)
(1 x 2) + (3 x 4) x 5 +(6 + 7 + 8 + 9) = 100
Alexander Wilkinson (Age 9, Crofton Junior
School, Kent)
[(1 + 2) ÷ 3] + 4 + (5 x 6) + (7 x 8) + 9 = 100
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Daniel Loh (Age 10, Anglo-Chinese School,
Singapore)
(1 + 2 + 3 + 4) x (((-5 + 6) x (-7 + 8)) + 9)
= 10 x (((-5 + 6) x (-7 + 8)) + 9)
= 10 x ((1 x (-7 + 8)) + 9)
= 10 x ((1 x 1) + 9)
= 10 x (1 x 9)
= 10 x 10
= 100
Lennox Akoto (Age 10, Norbury Manor Primary
School)
(9x8) + (4x6) + 9 + 1 + 5 + 2 + 3 = 56 + 24 + 20 = 100
Declan Doyle & Harry Baker (Age 10, Norbury
Manor Primary School)
(7 x 8) + (4 x 6) + 9 + 1 + 5 + 2 + 3 = 56 + 24 + 20 = 100