Hi everybody!
It's Jason again from Collaborative Mathematics.
This is challenge number six, with special thanks
to my friend Scott for the idea!
The challenge this time is actually rather easy to explain.
I'm going to give you two building blocks:
the number eight and the plus sign.
And your goal is to build an expression that equals 1000.
It's just that easy.
You can use as many eights as you want.
You can use as many plus signs as you want.
If you felt like it would be helpful, you could
take multiple eights and smash them together. Like, you could take two eights
and make eighty-eight.
In any case, the goal is simply that: an expression that contains
only eights and plus signs that, in the end, equals 1000.
Now, while you're working on this challenge
you may discover more than one way of solving it.
I mean, you might find more than one expression that contains only eights
and plus signs that adds up to 1000.
And that would be cool.
But then, the next question that should start
rolling around in your brain is: How many different ways are there?
Right? If you can find more than one way, great! But can you find all of the ways?
How many ways are there? Who knows!
This is something else to explore! Isn't that cool!
So, finding one way is great. Finding *all* the ways is *really* great!
Maybe you want to take on that challenge, too.
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And that's it. OK!
I look forward to seeing what happens next!
Have fun!