Today Puzzle #554
Puzzle No. 554鈥� Tuesday 27 August
On the 大象传媒 show, Family Brain Games, host Dara O'Briain set a maths challenge called the Broken Calculator. You have a calculator where only certain numbers and symbols work. In this Broken Calculator, only the numbers 0, 3 and symbols "minus", "equals" and "divide" work. Using these numbers and symbols as many times as you like, how can you make the number 8?
Today’s #PuzzleForToday has been set by Bobby Seagull is a school maths teacher and Doctorate student in Mathematics Education at Cambridge University. www.bobbyseagull.com
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There may be multiple solutions, here is one.
33 divided by 3 = 11
11 - 3 = 8
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