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Four 9s to make 20
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Use four 9s to make 20.
What two arithmetic operations should be used to achieve the result?
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9 + 99/9 = 20
[After Boris A. Kordemsky. The Moscow Puzzles: 359 mathematical recreations. 1972]
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