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Joe thought he would test Penny’s ability to manipulate equations this week. So he asked her to find the values of the integers A, B and C in the following equation.

What are the values of A, B and C?

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Answer to 1576 The holly and the ivy and the…: Holly on red, ivy on silver, mistletoe on gold

The winner Beth Morgan of Palo Alto, California, US