7. Now buy the following items using the fewest possible number of coins. a) A carton of milk: b) A cabbage: c) A tomato:
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d) A loaf of bread: e) Yoghurts:
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8. What would be the most number of coins you could use to buy a tomato? =
Puzzler – ‘Move the Euros’ Puzzle + =
Can you rearrange the sequence of coins above, in no more than five moves, so that the new arrangement of the coins will be as follows?
But there’s a catch! Two coins together (that are beside each other) must be moved each time. Each time you make a move, the two coins moved must be different types of coins. You may not pick up the coins, you must slide them. You may not rearrange the order of the two coins you are moving as you move them.
After each move, at least one of the two coins moved must end up touching a new coin.
Adding Money
Look again at the selection of groceries on the previous page. When we are adding amounts of money together, it is a good idea to write all the amounts of money underneath each other before adding them together.
For example: How much would it cost me to buy a cabbage and a banana? €1.25