Time for MATH MINUTE! (provide your favorite theme
music here).
Get
out your paper & pencil because I have a new puzzle for you!!
Puzzle
#49: Find the number, a mini-mystery
Choose a
2-digit number, but do not tell me what it is.
Write it
down and also write it in reverse.
Subtract
the smaller number from the larger.
If you tell
me the first digit of the answer I can always tell you the last digit.
How do I do
it?
Hint:
See Puzzle #48
Send
your comments, ideas and solutions before Monday to this email address, and be sure to put
MM in the subject line: parksjm@potsdam.edu
Visit
us here online to see the results every Monday.
See
you next time on MATH MINUTE! (theme music fades out here).