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The riddle:

Using each of the numbers 2, 4, 6, 8 once and using multiplication, division, addition and subtraction (actually, subtraction is not needed), create an equation which equals 25.

For the heck of it, I tried three different AL's. None of them got it correctly, regardless of how many attempts. They did, however, try to justify their authoritative answers using arithmetic that a first grader could recognize as being wrong.

Jeff

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