Question 1094687
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The best way to solve such puzzles (and solve them MENTALLY) is to go from the end to the beginning and to do the inverse operations:


a) divide 900 by 25 mentally to get 4*9 = 36;


b) add 17 to 36 to get 17+36 = 53.


It is your answer and your secret number.
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