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Great dates to solve (maths)

 
 
Reply Tue 1 May, 2012 06:45 am
103. In day month and year format (dd/mm/yy), Shakira by mistake exchanged the date at the place of month and month at the place of date. If the duration (time period due to this mistake) changes between 80 to 90 days, how many max times can it be done
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Reply Tue 1 May, 2012 09:02 pm
@sandy111,
Do you mean:
- exchanged day and month (the whole thing is a "date")?
- how many ways can it be done (it can be done an infinite number of "times" with the same day/month)?

Assuming the above, I get:
18 (1/4, 2/5, 3/6, 4/7, 5/8, 6/9, 7/10, 8/11, 9/12, 4/1, 5/2, 6/3, 7/4, 8/5, 9/6, 10/7, 11/8, 12/9)
sandy111
 
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Reply Wed 2 May, 2012 02:29 am
@markr,
Ur answer is correct........
sandy111
 
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Reply Wed 2 May, 2012 02:31 am
@sandy111,
but u have not considered the change in duration between 80 to 90 days...In that case, actual correct answer is 9.
Miss L Toad
 
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Reply Wed 2 May, 2012 04:30 am
@sandy111,
It may be of some passing interest to you both that transposition errors are often divisible by 9.
sandy111
 
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Reply Wed 2 May, 2012 07:18 am
@Miss L Toad,
Yes, you are right.
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markr
 
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Reply Wed 2 May, 2012 09:04 am
@Miss L Toad,
Transposition errors (in integers) are always divisible by 9.
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markr
 
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Reply Wed 2 May, 2012 08:03 pm
@sandy111,
Quote:
but u have not considered the change in duration between 80 to 90 days...In that case, actual correct answer is 9.


That depends on whether or not duration is a signed quantity...
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