document.write( "Question 1112579: A mystery number is subtracted from 500. The answer has three consecutive digits and the digits of the answer add to 12. What is the mystery number? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "There are more than one different solutions/answers.\r\n" );
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document.write( "One, the most simple solution is  500 - x = 345.    ====>  x = 500 - 345.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The other is 500 - x = 543  ====>  x = 500 - 543 = - 43. \r\n" );
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document.write( "There is nothing in the condition (written quite unprofessionally) that prohibit to have many other solutions.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Notice that \"consecutive digits\" does not mean \"consecutive numbers\". It has totally different meaning.\r\n" );
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