SOLUTION: create the number 24 using the numbers 1, 3, 4, and 6. You can add, subtract, multiply and divide.

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Question 893055: create the number 24 using
the numbers 1, 3, 4, and 6. You can add,
subtract, multiply and divide.

Found 2 solutions by Edwin McCravy, MathTherapy:
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
By a computer program, I did an exhaustive search of all
possibilities.  The computer program showed that there is 
no way to get exactly 24 by adding, subtracting, multiplying 
and dividing those four number.  The closest the computer 
found was:

1/3+4x6 = 24.333333333 which rounds to 24.

Edwin

Answer by MathTherapy(10553) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!

create the number 24 using
the numbers 1, 3, 4, and 6. You can add,
subtract, multiply and divide.

If exponents are allowed, then: %284%286%29%29%2F1%5E3_____24%2F1