Name _____ Date __
Ima Thinker
ABC CODE CRACKERS
57
I’ll start with the third column.
C + 3 +C= 19 ,
so C+C= 19 — 3 , or 16.
C is 16 ÷2, or 8. In the first
column I’ll replace Cwith 8.
1.Why did Ima start with the third column? _____
2.What is the value of A? ___
3.How did you figure out the value of B? ___
4.What is the value of A+A+B+B+C+C? _____
PROBLEM
(^1) What is the value of each letter?
The numbers at the tops of the columns are the column sums.
The same letters have the same values. Crack the code.
28
A
C
A
24
A
C
B
19
C
3
C
Algebra Readiness Made Easy: Gr
. 5
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