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Puzzle ZRTD 


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What number is …

… three-quarters of eight-ninths of one-half of 2001?

Puzzle Copyright © Kevin Stone

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Answer
667.

Reasoning
3      8      1
—  of  —  of  —  of 2001
4      9      2

which simplifies to:
24
——  of 2001
72

which simplifies to:
1
—  of 2001
3

Giving 667.