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Solutions to Spring 2017 HEXA Challenge Problems

Figure 1. The bigger radius, r, inscribed into the triangle ABC.

Next, we add the last two proportions to obtain:

June Challenge: If you were to write all of the whole numbers from 1 to 1,000,000 and add them together, to what would they sum?

SOLUTION: 1; 2; … ; 999,999; 1,000,000 1 + 1,000,000 = 1,000,001 2 + 999,999 = 1,000,001 … 500,000 + 500,001 = 1,000,001

You add 500,000 cases of 1,000,0001 500,000 x 1,000,001 = 500,000,500,000

July Challenge: A man owes $10,000. At the moment, he has nothing, and has just started a new job. His schedule has him work only every other month. During the month he is off, it takes him two weeks to cash the check for his

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