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This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

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Today Programme Maths Puzzle

drmorgans | 09:02 Mon 02nd Mar 2020 | Quizzes & Puzzles

6 Answers

As you may know BBC Radio 4’s Today programme normally sets a maths puzzle just before the 7 am news. They vary from in-seconds to head-scratcher.

Today’s

A group of men and women go out for coffee. The men pay £6, the women £5 (the presenter queried why the men paid more). The total bill is £171.

How many different combinations of men and women are there?

I have my answer, which I will post later.

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donny48

CrapAtCryptics

27W & 6M, 23W & 11M, 15W & 16M, 9W & 21M 3W & 26M

Is that enough

nescio

1,33 6,27 11,21 16,15 21,9 26,3

Old_Geezer

Looks like the sort of thing I'd let my spreadsheet find. 34 folk max. Column for 0 to 34 men, next column = number of women to bring the bill total to near £171. Spot those that are exactly £171.

drmorgans

Question Author

I thought it was 6 too.

I tried to narrow down the possibilities logically. The only combinations of 6 and 5 that end in a 1 are multiples of 6 ending in 6 and an odd number of 5s.

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Do you know the answer?