August 2015
Problem of the Month

Widget Digits
by Bob Stanton in GAMES
World of Puzzles
May 2015



If you pay for a $50.00 widget with a hundred-dollar bill, your change will contain the same set of digits -- one five and three zeroes -- as the purchase price.

Can you find all the other prices whose change from a hundred-dollar bill contains the exact same set of digits as the purchase price?


Solution to the Problem:

There are eight solutions besides $50.00:
$54.50, $45.50, $63.50, $36.50, $72.50, $27.50, $81.50, and $18.50.
($90.50 and $09.50 are a bit of a stretch)



Correctly solved by:

1. James Alarie Flint, Michigan
2. Michael Reilly Silver Spring, Maryland


Send any comments or questions to: David Pleacher