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Problem
Which of these five numbers is the largest?
Solution
The options given in choices , and don't change the initial value (13579) much, the option in choice decreases 13579 by a lot, and the one given in choice increases 13579 by a lot.
After ensuring that no trivial error was made, we have as the answer.
See Also
1990 AJHSME (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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Followed by Problem 7 | |
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