March 2, 2015 in Thinking Analytically
Coins add up
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Rearrange the coins in Figure 1 so that the sums of the coins across the rows and down the columns match the dollar amounts shown.
Question: In what order do the coins need to be to solve the puzzle?
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John Toczek is the AVP Predictive Modeling at Chubb in the Decision Analytics and Predictive Modeling department. He earned his BSc. in Chemical Engineering at Drexel University (1996) and his MSc. in Operations Research from Virginia Commonwealth University (2005).