Guess And Check Problem?

Question

Draw A Star and Circle all of the points on the star then circle all of the points that ar the vertices in the center of the star. Now use any integers to make all of the lines of 4 numbers add up to thirty.

Plz help. Do it by guess and check or share a easier more mathmatical way plz

Thank You

Answer 1

If the teacher doesn't say that you cannot repeat numbers, try this...

Put 15 on all of the tips of the star and 0 on all of the vertices inside the star.

Answer 2

so you mean this puzzle:

http://bp2.blogger.com/_zJfGdkTGq6U/R5Si...

First of all:

never use numbers higher then 24, cause if you use all different numbers in rows of 4, the lowest 3 are 1, 2, 3. with 24 left to make 30

apart from that I'm still guessing.

haha, I hope you can't use the method of the person above me, that would be too easy :-P

Answer 3

I found

http://www.geocities.com/~harveyh/magics...

about Magic Stars

He shows two order 7 Magic Stars with sums of 30.

I gather there are 70 others.

A web search on Magic Stars should turn up more information.

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Answer 4

whats guess and check?