Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/54 - The Two Additions/Solution
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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $54$
- The Two Additions
- Can you arrange the following figures into two groups of $4$ figures each so that each group shall add to the same sum?
- $1 \ 2 \ 3 \ 4 \ 5 \ 7 \ 8 \ 9$
Solution
- $12 + 4 + 8 = 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 = 24$
There are probably many such answers.
Dudeney himself offers:
173 85 4 92 --- --- 177 177
Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Solutions: $54$. -- The Two Additions
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Answers: $105$. The Two Additions