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Mathematical Brainteasers with Surprising Solutions (Paperback)
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Mathematical Brainteasers with Surprising Solutions (Paperback)
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Loot Price R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
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Proves that math can be serious fun! If you like any kind of game
at all, you'll enjoy the amazing mathematical brainteasers in this
entertaining book. No special mathematics training is needed. With
an emphasis on puzzling word problems with surprising solutions,
the author presents his mathematical hurdles in order of increasing
difficulty. Many appear deceptively simple, such as: How many
quarter-inch marks are on an unusual sixteen-inch ruler? Or: If the
cost of a bottle and a cork is $1.10 and the bottle costs $1.00
more than the cork, how much did the bottle alone cost? Check the
answers before you decide that these are too easy. You may be
surprised. Novices may want to begin with some of the teasers in
the first "easy" section. More experienced math-heads may want to
test their wits with the "challenging" or even the "difficult"
sections (some are fiendishly difficult). Including word problems
by famed mathematical puzzle geniuses Sam Loyd (1841 - 1911) and
Henry Ernest Dudeney (1857 - 1930), which have entertained
recreational math aficionados for more than a century, this book
has something for puzzle solvers at any level. And for the math
phobic, it may whet your appetite to delve into a subject you
thought could only be boring.
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