Question

what is done to 77,000 , 53,000 and 24,000 to get the answer 45.28?

Answer 1

@Hero @SmokeyBrown I have no idea what's going on in this problem

Answer 2

I'm not sure I understand the question either. I notice that 77,000 is 53,000 plus 42,000...
Are we trying to get 45.28 as a result by combining the other three numbers in some way?

Answer 3

yes exactly

Answer 4

42k + 53k is 77k

Answer 5

and what kind of question is this

Answer 6

24k not 42k

Answer 7

Not sure if this is what you mean, but here is something I tried:
(77,000 * 24,000)/53,000 = 24,868
24,868/24,000 = 1.4548
1.4528 - (24,000/24000) = 0.4528.
So I got the digits, 4528 in a kind of convoluted way (is it cheating to reuse the numbers?)
But, yeah, I can't get any further than that.

Answer 8

nope not cheating

Answer 9

who's cheating

Answer 10

sorry guys for the late replies (s well as short), running a high fever

Answer 11

oh em gee @SmokeyBrown that is exactly what I needed

Answer 12

Okay so you did get 4528?

Answer 13

Heh, not quite. I got 0.4528, which is off from 45.28 by a factor of 100 and off from 4528 by a factor of 10000

Answer 14

yes well with the overall calculations you multiply it by 100 so you were right

Answer 15

Is that so? Well, you've got the question in front of you, so I guess if that's allowed, hooray.

Answer 16

okay now we have to do it with 79,000 , 57,000 , 22,000

Answer 17

you set forward the process so I will do it, if you can check it i would appreciate it

Answer 18

Oh, I guess if you're allowed to reuse numbers, you could just do like (24,000) + itself 100 times, then divide by 24000 to get 100. Seems kind of like a cop-out though. Like, you could do the same for any of the numbers, say 4328 times, then divide that by 100.
Maybe I'm still not fully understanding the question :/

Answer 19

it got 0.3862

Answer 20

wby

Answer 21

okay then lol

Answer 22

Whoops, sorry, I was working on a writing assignment.
Let me know if you need help with anything else!

Answer 23

Where does this question come from? Is it a homework question?

Answer 24

Nope, I was trying to figure a problem out. It wasn't homework just a lesson