# Brain Teaser-PLS HELP!

• September 8th 2008, 06:19 PM
restoreclassics
Brain Teaser-PLS HELP!
Write the number 1000 by using exactly eight 8's......... (I can get within 1 number either higher or lower)
• September 8th 2008, 09:36 PM
Soroban
Hello, restoreclassics!

Quote:

Write the number 1000 by using exactly eight 8's
I saw this in a children's magazine (when I was a child) . . .

. . $888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 \;=\;1000$

• September 9th 2008, 05:35 PM
restoreclassics
So Simple
So simple!! And I was adding, subtracting.....etc. AAAaargg!! Thank you!
• September 9th 2008, 05:39 PM
Jhevon
(Rofl) so simple
Quote:

Originally Posted by Soroban
Hello, restoreclassics!

I saw this in a children's magazine (when I was a child) . . .

. . $888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 \;=\;1000$

and you still remember?!
• September 9th 2008, 07:02 PM
Soroban
Quote:

Originally Posted by Jhevon
(Rofl) so simple and you still remember?!

Well, it was one of the first "trick questions" I had ever seen in math
and it impressed me.

On the other hand, don't ask me what I had for lunch today . . .