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Re: Puzzle thread Jan. 6

Thu, 08 January 2004 01:50

nash

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Ron wrote on Wed, 07 January 2004 14:20

1. An enormous military band was marching and playing at an official ceremony. At the beginning, the musicians formed a perfect square; that is, there were the same number of rows and columns. Suddenly, they changed formation and became a rectangle in which the number of columns of musicians was greater by 5 than it had been in the previous formation.
How many musicians were there in the band?

Damn, misread this as the new number of columns is 5 larger then the new number of rows... ie (n^2) = m * m - 5.

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		Puzzle thread Jan. 6 By: Ron on Tue, 06 January 2004 22:20
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