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How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?

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Question added by zubair ali imtiaz ali , Design Executive , INTERWOOD MOBEL PVT.LTD
Date Posted: 2017/03/16
Ahmed Ajjour
by Ahmed Ajjour , Construction Project Manager , Mushtaha Engineering & Contracting Co.

There are multiple ways to go about this.

  1. The first is : you can only subtract 10 from 100 once. This assumes, we have only one “100” and after the subtraction is done, no more 100s are left.
  2. The second is - Infinite. In this case lets also assume we have only one “100”. But we can subtract 10 from it infinite number of times. For eg. 100–10, (100–10)-10, ((100–10)-10)-10 and so on.
  3. Also infinite times - you can do as you please subtract as much as you want, the result will always be 90.

 

 

Sahid Sahid
by Sahid Sahid , Head of Division on Research and Training , SEAMEO QITEP in MATHEMATICS

One hundred can be subtracted ten times by ten.

Dinu Mathew Thomas
by Dinu Mathew Thomas , Commerical Interior designer , Symmetrics development services

i agree with Mr Ahmed he answered all possible answers 

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