Tuesday, 2 December 2014

The Curious License Plate



            When I acquired my Mercedes- Benz car in Germany the first thing I had to do was to get a license plate. The plate I got had peculiar number on it. It consisted of 5 different numbers and by mistake when fixed it upside down the number could be still read, but the value had increased by 78633.
What was my actual license number?

Answer:     There are only 5 numbers that can be read upside down   0.1.6.8 and 9. Now we only have to arrange these numbers so that when turned upside down the result will be larger by 78633. With some experiment we will find that the number is 10968 which are 89601, inverted.

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