Justundera Quid bought some letters to make a word and they cost exactly one penny less than one pound.
£ | A costs 1p B costs 2p C costs 3p etc. |
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What do you think the word could have been?
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
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Here is the URL which will take them to a student activity called 'Letter Sums'.
Now the prices of the letters are defined by prime numbers (A = 2, B = 3, C = 5 etc) and the price of a word is the product of the letters it contains.
For example the word BAD costs 3 × 2 × 7 = 42p.
What mathematical words might cost:
£6.10
£26.84
£2726.90