I am a student, middle (6-9), who is having a problem and no one has been able to answer me correctly. I have tried for hours and can not get the answer to my question. I have gotten close. I've used the four factorial, decimals, fractions, square root, addition, subtraction, multiplication, you name it I tried it.
I am known as Myra.
My question:
Using four fours and only four fours to get an answer of 37.
My solutions:
4! + 4! = 48 - 4/.4 = 38
My results just don't add up to 37. There is plenty more where that came from.
Hi Myra,
We have 37 = 41 - 4,
and the digit 1 can be represented as 4/4, so we could write
37 as 4(4/4) - 4. (Read 4(4/4) as the digit 4 followed by the digit 1.)
Is that cheating?
(And how about factorials and square roots, why should they be allowed if my clever trick is forbidden?)
Claude