October "Fun with Math" answers

Eleven winners in first "Fun with Math"

"Fun with Math" creator George Yu might have underestimated the math prowess of the Young Saint Louis.com readers.

Eleven kids who entered the first math competition of the 2009-10 school year got all the answers correct.

Ordinarily, YSL.com awards two $10 Borders gift certificates when there are just a few winners. But, with 11 kids getting all of the answers correct, we've decided to award three certificates.

The certificate winners, who were chosen at random from among the 11 all-correct entries, are:

Elliot Ambort of St. Louis, Jane Gillette of Clayton and Olivia Smith of St. Louis.

The eight other kids who got the correct answers were:

Timothy Bailey of Clayton, Matthew De Lapaz of St. Louis, Eric Graham of Clayton, Mark Hoagland of Clayton, Durga Kullakanda of Maryland Heights, Lemuel Lan of Clayton, Bob Qian of Clayton and Ryan Wahidi of Creve Coeur.

As we mentioned in the writeup of the October puzzles, it will be useful later in the year if you keep a copy of this puzzle. That's because George Yu is going to have a similar puzzle later in the year and he promises it will be much tougher than the October one.

If you want to enter the "Fun with Math" contest for November, just click here.

Here's George's explanation for the October puzzles:

Solution for October's Fun with Math