PRIZE PUZZLE FOR SEPTEMBER 2006

NUMERICAL ANAGRAM

The arithmetic of this sum is correct but when the numbers are written out as words, one side is not the anagram of the other.

THREE + TEN = FIVE + EIGHT

There is an equation like this where both sides add up to 13 and where each side is an anagram of the other. Which pairs of numbers have this property?

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TWO + ELEVEN = ONE + TWELVE

I received 4 correct answers: from John Stafford, Colin Rowe, Peter Greenhalgh and Rosemary West. John Stafford won the draw and the £5 book token.

Easy, wasn't it?

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