1. Determine, by any convenient method, the value of each of the twenty-five variables below.

2. Substitute the value for each variable into the right-hand side of the equation and perform all indicated arithmetic operations.
    Use the correct order of operations!





THE CLUES

a = normal body temperature in Celsius
b = the length of a side of a cube whose volume is 125 cm3
c = the value of 1F (base sixteen) in base ten
d = the base ten value of 5736 in base eight
e = the number of piano keys

f = the senses + the Great Lakes
g = (books in a trilogy) x (points in the Star of David)
h = fourscore x starting members of a basketball team
i = degrees in a circle ÷ degrees in a right angle
j = Snow White’s dwarfs + ____ Days in May (book title)

k = floor left out in most hotels x _____ seas
l = alphabet’s letters x dots in a colon
m = “A stitch in time saves _____”
n = freezing point of water (in Fahrenheit)
o = notes in an octave + circles of Hell in Dante's Divine Comedy

p = musketeers x baker’s dozen
q = books of the Bible - golden anniversary
r = blackbirds baked in a pie + golf course holes + two decades
s = bits in a half dollar x days in a week
t = field goal – safety (in football)

u = human adult’s teeth + lucky number + original colonies + Wilson’s points
v = Gospels + the Commandments + The Disciples
w = the R’s + legs of a bovine
x = wisdom teeth x each state’s senators to the U.S. Congress
y = checkerboard squares - Presidents on Mount Rushmore


Many thanks to Austin Hale from Grand Junction, Colorado for finding the error in clue i
(it needed to be the division symbol instead of the addition symbol!)

ALso, many thanks to Seth Cohen from Concord, New Hampshire for finding a problem with the formula.   It wasn't so fantastic after all!

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Solution:


a = 37
b = 5
c = 31
d= 3038
e = 88

f = 10
g = 18
h = 400
i = 4
j = 14

k = 91
l = 52
m = 9
n = 32
o = 17

p = 39
q = 16
r = 62
s = 28
t = 1

u = 66
v = 26
w = 7
x = 8
y = 60

z = 1



Correctly solved by:

1. Seth Cohen Concord, New Hampshire, USA
2. K. Sengupta Calcutta, India
3. Dr. Hari Kishan D.N. College,
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
4. Colin (Yowie) Bowey Beechworth, Victoria, Australia