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To find out this Magic V problem, I first wanted to know two numbers that when added together would equal the same as another two numbers put together. I realised that there were 1 and 4. The other pair was 2 and 3. They both equalled 5, so I wrote one pair on one arm of the V and the other one the second arm of the V. It left me with 5, so I placed down five on the bottom circle like shown in the picture. Next, I tried to think of other matching pairs and came up with: 4 plus 2 and 5 plus 1. They both added to 6. Leaving me with 3, I put it at the bottom. It did the next one like so in the picture. Finally, just to see if there were any other solutions, I put 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 down the side of my page. In mini writing, next to one, I put 2, 3, 4 & 5. Next, to 2, i would put in miniature 3, 4 & 5. And so on. Then I would add 1 plus 2 and see if I could make 3 with any other numbers. If I couldn't I would cross out the two. Then I did that for the next numbers just to see that the only solutions for the investigation were just the three Magic Vs.