The Boring Homework
Thursday, March 29th, 2018“Daddy, give me an interesting problem to think about. I’m bored with these homework problems, they’re all too easy,” said Junior laying down his pen on his notebook in disgust.
“I’ll give you one Euler offered to his pupils,” said daddy.
“Tell me, tell me,” said Junior enthusiastically.
“Divide 100 into two summands so that one is divisible by 7 and the other by 11,” said daddy.
Junior got busy with his pen on the notebook…
“I liked that one, daddy,” said Junior, “tomorrow I’ll give it to my teacher in class to see if she knows the answer. I’m sure she’ll be very happy,” laughed Junior, clapping his hands.
What do you say are the two summands?