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The Curious License Plate
When Chidam got his first car, the first thing he had to do was to get a license plate. When he got his plate, he noticed that the plate had a peculiar number with five digits on it. He also noticed that the numbers could be read upside down, but the value of the number had increased by 78633.
Can you help Chidam find the number of his license plate number?
Can you help Chidam find the number of his license plate number?
Hint
There are only 5 digits from 0 to 9 which can be read upside down. The numbers are - 0, 1, 6, 8 and 9.Answer
The number of Chidam's license plate is 10968, which is 89601 when inverted. That is 78633 more than the original number.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Hope you liked my first shot at logic....
I didn't actually get the question so I couldn't solve it LOL
I thought the value was increased by 7...whatever when the numbers were upside down.. LOL
I thought the value was increased by 7...whatever when the numbers were upside down.. LOL
Great teaser Chidam!! Good job!
Easy peasy lemon squeezy... Good to end start the day.
Very cleaver teaser.
this s@$t is wack
Jan 19, 2007
Found it difficult only because inverted is different than mirrored or backwards.
Man, that was good but I'd never get it!!
I must be tired... I didn't understand the question properly.
Fun yet hard.
Difficult.
Really good teaser, thanks! [Almost 10 years since the last comment!??]
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