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Mad Ade's House Number
Mad Ade lives on a long street In Sunny Madadia and he has noticed that the sum of the house numbers up to his own house, "The Kebabers rest", but excluding it, equals the sum of the numbers of his house to the end of the road. If the houses are numbered consecutively, starting from 1, what are the possible numbers of Mad Ade's house?
There are less than 1000 houses on the road.
There are less than 1000 houses on the road.
Answer
There are four possible answers if the total number of Houses is no more than 1000.Mad Ade's house could be #3 out of 3, #15 out of 20, #85 out of 119, or #493 out of 696.
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