Clever cousin

Monday, November 19, sunny

Today, my cousin Cong Cong came to my house to be a guest. He is now a bald head, a small hand fat, with a small nest on the back of his hand, his head is quite big, and his forehead is highly convex. Don't look at him, he is only 5 years old. He hasn't read a small country yet, but he is very smart.

After dinner, I took out a deck of cards and played "24 o'clock" with my father. The method is to increase, divide, multiply and divide the number of points of four cards to 24, who first calculates who wins. My cousin is too small, I told him to watch the battle. I played with my father and encountered a "difficult problem." The four cards of 8, 8, 6, and 9 are added and subtracted, and they can't be equal to 24. My father and I frowned, thinking hard... Suddenly, the cousin who was concentrating on watching the battle was open and serious: "I know."

I glanced at him and thought that even my father and I could not solve the problem. Can you figure it out? I took the opportunity to test him and said, "What do you say?" The cousin said without hesitation: "Use 9 times 8 equals 72, then 6 times 8 equals 48, and finally subtracts 48 from 72. It is."

After listening to her true calculations, Dad and I couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praised: "You are so smart!" From then on, I was really convinced of the "Brain" cousin. Are you dissatisfied?

Baoji High-tech, a small fourth grade in Baoji, Binhai District, Shaanxi Province: Joe