Article 2TC6B Did you solve it? Pythagoras's best puzzles

Did you solve it? Pythagoras's best puzzles

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Alex Bellos
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The solutions to today's puzzles

In my blog earlier today I set you the following three problems from Pythagoras Magazine.

1) Dollar bills. In a bag are 26 bills. If you take out 20 bills from the bag at random, you have at least one 1-dollar bill, two 2-dollar bills, and five 5-dollar bills. How much money was in the bag?

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