document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1190094>Question 1190094</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> If a = $.01, b = $.02, c = $.03, and so on, what is the value of your first name? Using this alphabet system, one of the days of the week is worth exactly $1.00. Which is it? Explain your reasoning.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The names of the days all have the common suffix \"day\".\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "It costs 4 + 1 + 25 = 30 cents.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So, we should combine 70 cents using the rest of letters.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Since any letter costs not more than 26 cents (and 13.5 cents, in average, because there are 26 letters in English alphabet),<BR>\n" );
document.write( "it makes it clear than 3 remaining letters, as in the word \"Monday\", is not enough.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So, Monday, Friday and Sunday do not work.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Also, thinking this way, it is obvious that the words with 4 or 5 leading letters, like  Tuesday or Thursday, have few chances, too.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So, only Wednesday and Saturday are the real candidates to be verified in the first turn,\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "and it REDUCES the choice to be checked.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "It is my semi-joking answer to this joke problem . . . \r<BR>\n" );
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