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| Volume VII, Issue 1 | January 2004 |
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After paying all your Christmas bills you are very short of cash. You have a
total of $9.60 in your pocket. The money is composed of equal numbers of
quarters, dimes, and nickels, but no other coins. How many of each do you have?
For no prize, but a greater challenge, try this one. You again have a total of
$9.60 in your pocket. The money is composed of quarters, dimes, nickels, and
pennies. You have an equal number of quarters and nickels, twice as many dimes
as quarters, and several pennies. How many pennies do you have?
Please e-mail Lester Dickey with
your answer and your name, phone number, and the organization for which you
work. Or call Barbara Buck at 624-9501. The winner will be drawn from all the
correct entries and will receive a FREE pizza, either from CJ’s Pizza or from
the EDOC Cafeteria. All answers must be in no later than the 14th of the month.
Last
month's challenge brought 45 submissions, with 43 being correct answers. The
winner, chosen by random drawing, is Ellen Lee of BIS.
The answers to last month’s Challenge: The next item in the sequence would be
“d31” for December 31. The next letter in the other sequence would be “U”
