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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
No Bills
How can you give someone $63 using six bills, without using any one dollar bills?
Maybe it's cheating, but how about giving them: $20 $10 $10 $10 $10 $5 and getting $2 back from them? It doesn't say THEY can't use one-dollar bills... :-P
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Maybe it's cheating, but how about giving them:
ReplyDelete$20
$10
$10
$10
$10
$5
and getting $2 back from them? It doesn't say THEY can't use one-dollar bills... :-P
Well, if you happen to have any two dollar bills on hand, you might give them:
ReplyDelete$50
$5
$2
$2
$2
$2
I like both of your solutions. I hadn't thought of getting change, but instead, I had oudeis' answer using $2 bills.
ReplyDelete6- $10
ReplyDeleteand 300 Pennies
????
well what about this?
ReplyDelete$50
$10
$5
like Tabitha said get change back
Six Ten Dollar Bills 3 One Dollar Coins
ReplyDeleteHahaha. I like Confused's answer.
ReplyDeleteVery inventive.