Three Die

Last Problem:

Read the following sentence:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS

OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

Now, read it again. this time counting every F you see. How many did you find?

Are you sure you found them all?

Answer:

This is actually a classic game. There are six F’s. The Fs in the word “of” are very easy to miss, so that the count you derive is 3 rather than 6.

Today’s Problem:

You see three faces on each of three dice for a total of nine faces. If the sum of the dots on each die is different and you see a total of forty dots altogether, then which faces (showing which numbers) must be visible on each of the three dice?

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