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ANSWERS TO
SILLY STUFF

by Bill Graham

couple in canoe A mathematical limerick?

The first question was, "What limerick does this math equation represent?"

12 + 144 + 20 + 3√4

+ 5 × 11 = 9² + 0

The hint was to think of words the first three numbers stand for. Make sure you say this out loud with the proper limerical lilt! “A dozen, a gross and a score,
plus three times the square root of four,
divided by seven,
plus five times 11
equals nine squared and not a bit more.” A silly sentence

Write a word name in each blank to make the following sentence true. (In other words, write “five” in a blank, not 5.)

This sentence contains …… Ts, …… Es and …… Ss. I don’t think this needs an answer. I think the fun comes from fiddling around with it.

But if you insist on an answer, here it is. “This sentence contains five Ts, six Es and eight Ss.”

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