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A collector of rare items obtained a kite that had been used to promote an old and obscure movie about a bee colony in Egypt. He recently sold the Nile Hive film kite at an auction for somewhere between twenty-six hundred and thirty-two hundred dollars. What was the exact amount, in dollars, the item sold for? |
| Solution: Each of the four words in the item name -- Nile Hive film kite -- is made up of four letters. When these words are written out in all capital letters, the number of lines used to draw each letter follows the same pattern (ex. "NILE": "N" uses three straight lines, "I" uses one, "L" uses two, and "E" uses four). All four words follow this same pattern of 3-1-2-4. This pattern is what determines the four-digit price, as it also falls within the given range. The item sold for exactly $3,124. |
4/1/03
Jeb Havens