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(Message started by: Product on Jun 1^st, 2007, 7:37am)

Title: Elemental math
Post by Product on Jun 1^st, 2007, 7:37am

I apologize if this has been posted before, I searched for a bunch of things and didn't find this riddle anywhere. I got it from a professor in a math for elementary students class. It took me a couple days to figure it out, but I'm slow. I was the only one who figured it out, though.

It works best as an oral riddle, but this being the internet I'll do the best I can.

"If five minus four equals iron, what does six minus nine equal?"

The answer is not -3.

Title: Re: Elemental math
Post by towr on Jun 1^st, 2007, 7:49am

Heh.. clever..
And the answer is even in the same group as the example.

Two others:
six minus ten
nil minus fifty

Title: Re: Elemental math
Post by Aryabhatta on Jun 1^st, 2007, 10:22am

on 06/01/07 at 07:49:35, towr wrote:

six minus ten
nil minus fifty

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Title: Re: Elemental math
Post by rmsgrey on Jun 2^nd, 2007, 12:21pm

on 06/01/07 at 07:49:35, towr wrote:

nil minus fifty

Did someone mention a shrubbery?