09/06/2021
🇺🇸 Happy Labor Day 🇺🇸
In honor of the millions of hardworking Americans, can you solve today’s #mathmonday challenge?
Cheryl’s assistant mails out some letters and as the responses come back, it turns out that all of the letters to Sweden and all of the letters to Brazil were placed in the wrong envelopes, and only one of the letters to Singapore reached its intended recipient. “But look at the bright side,” says the assistant, “at least every letter made it to the correct country!” Cheryl responds, “Whatever am I going to do with you? You addressed all the envelopes correctly, but out of the thousands of ways you could have put the letters into the envelopes, there were only six ways to mix them up in this particular fashion. And yet somehow you managed to do it.”
If the letters concerned were sent only to Sweden, Brazil and Singapore, how many letters did the assistant send out?
[**Answer to be posted this Thursday, 9/9]
🇺🇸 Happy Labor Day 🇺🇸
In honor of the millions of hardworking Americans, can you solve today’s #mathmonday challenge?
Cheryl’s assistant mails out some letters and as the responses come back, it turns out that all of the letters to Sweden and all of the letters to Brazil were placed in the wrong envelopes, and only one of the letters to Singapore reached its intended recipient. “But look at the bright side,” says the assistant, “at least every letter made it to the correct country!” Cheryl responds, “Whatever am I going to do with you? You addressed all the envelopes correctly, but out of the thousands of ways you could have put the letters into the envelopes, there were only six ways to mix them up in this particular fashion. And yet somehow you managed to do it.”
If the letters concerned were sent only to Sweden, Brazil and Singapore, how many letters did the assistant send out?
[**Answer to be posted this Thursday, 9/9]
