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Originally posted by Cipher X
The Length of each side of a certain right triangle is teh reciprocal of a different integer. What is the least possible sum of these three integers?
This one has got me stumped so Good Luck!
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15, 20, and 12 will give you 47(
). I'm not sure how you would do this with normal math stuff, but it's a great computational problem. If anyone has some kind of cool discrete math trick for stuff like this, I'd definately be interested in seeing it.
The Al, Barb, Cal, Di, Ed one isn't too hard:
Al had $11.
The first one is a little too much thinking for me at this time of night, and I assume the point would be that symbolic calculators are strictly forbidden. Maybe tomorrow during math I'll crunch through it...