SOLUTION: Take any number. Add 10, multiply by 2, add 100, divide by 2 and subtract the original number. The answer will be the number of minutes in a hour. Why?

Question 12498: Take any number. Add 10, multiply by 2, add 100, divide by 2 and subtract the original number. The answer will be the number of minutes in a hour. Why?
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is easy to see when you write down the algebraic expression.
Let the number be x.
Simplify.

So you always get 60, the number of minutes in an hour.
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