1985 AJHSME Problems/Problem 2
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Problem
Solution
Solution 1
We could just add them all together. But what would be the point of doing that? So we find a slicker way.
We find a simpler problem in this problem, and simplify -> 
We know 
, that's easy - 
. So how do we find 
?
We rearrange the numbers to make 
. You might have noticed that each of the terms we put next to each other add up to 10, which makes for easy adding. 
. Adding that on to 900 makes 945.
945 is 
Solution 2
Instead of breaking the sum and then rearranging, we can start by rearranging:
See Also
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