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Re: Little annoying math question
Posted By: Faux Pas, on host 205.228.12.71
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999, at 15:28:49
In Reply To: Little annoying math question posted by Kaz! on Tuesday, October 26, 1999, at 14:56:05:

> Ok, this is a math question that i heard from a friend who didn't give me the answer and now it's beginning to bug me. The question is how do you make the following into a true equation?
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> (49-11)/10 = (34+4-6)/19
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> Now, the trick is that you can add or remove only 1 line (except you may not remove the divided by line or the = lines or the brackets, however you can add a diagonal line to a '/' to make it 'X')

Draw the line through the equals sign. It becomes an inequality symbol.

-Faux "Math is hard" Pas

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