Grand Quiz Question #13

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  Ambarish Ganesh

  Largest possible age: 98
  2nd largest : 87
  then 76, 65, 54, 43, 32, 21, 10. 10 is the least possible age.
  
  Trying 87 and 76, we get the other ages as 23 and 30, with 1 in the middle box.
  
  
  
  Left the blue ones out!
  The ages of X and W were not written in a down!(from question) 😕
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  Gandalf

  -----------
  | 4 | 1 | 6 |
  | 2 | 0 | 3 |
  | 9 | 5 | 7 |
  
  a and c got to be 1 and 2 since some of all would not exceed 298 and given the sum conditions
  16 + 63 + 29 + 95 = 203
  29 + 63 + 13 = 105
  
  
  i have not used 8 in my solution
  x and w are not written in down
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  Anil Jain

  - | a | b |
  c | - | - |
  d | - | - |
  
  
  Given that a, c , d, c, can not be 0;
  For the rules its aparent that a, b , c, d are two digits ages only,
  Now, C has to be less than 399+; again, C is sum of all four ages and a is sum of 3 ages, so a is less than c
  Hence C has to be 2 and a has to be 1
  
  
  Now as c = W+X+Y+Z which is a three digit figure, so ony following combination seems possible which will satisfy all the conditions****
  
  
  
  
  - | 1 | 6 |
  2 | 0 | 0 |
  9 | 5 | - |
  
  
  Hence:
  
  
  
  
  w=16
  x=95
  y=60
  z=29
  c (Across)=w+x+Y+z = 200
  a (Down)=W=Y+Z = 105
  
  
  Hence w and x are written across.
  
  
  -CB
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  silverscorpion

  |-|1|6|
  |2|0|4|
  |9|7|-|
  
  The middle number is common between C-across and A-down. This means that the difference between the sum of 4 ages and that of 3 ages is in the nineties.
  The maximum it can be is 98, (since digits should not be repeated).
  
  But whatever the case, we can see that D-across is where that left out age will come.
  Nevertheless, how much ever I try, I can't seem to accurately fill the boxes. There is a difference of 2 between the actual sum of 4 ages and C-across in the previous box.
  
  i.e., 29 + 97 + 16 + 64 = 206, whereas C-across is 204.
  
  This is the closest approx. i could come up with.
  So, to answer the question, X's age was left out in A-down.
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  Ankita Katdare

  This question has been declared as invalid.
  I apologize to all the participants.
  This is one of my biggest goof-ups till date.
  Coins of this question will not be credited to anyone.
  
  I feel ashamed of my activity. 😔
  
  PS: I again say sorry for behaving in a crude manner is preparing this question. 😭​