Clock face broken into three equal-sum pieces
Question
A clock face shatters into three pieces, and the hour numbers on each piece add up to the same total. Which numbers are on each piece?
Short answer
, and . The numbers to sum to , so each piece totals . Two roughly horizontal cuts, one between / and / and one between / and /, produce these three bands.
Adapted from Crack, Heard on the Street, Q1.4, p.9; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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