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$1.00 Help withe Magic Square.

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Complete the magic square using the following integers: –13, –10, –7, –4, 2, 5, 8, 11.

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there is a blank line above and below the -1
 


   
   
   
   
 
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$1.00 There are very few "tricks" to get started on these...

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Preview: ... le by 3" is a requirement, I cannot say if that is the only requirement. ANyway, back to the square in question.<br><br>Knowing that our row, colum, and diagonal totals are all going to end up as a negative 3, the trial-and-error part of fabricating the square begins.<br><br>Some thing to beware of when "manually building" a square: the CENTER square gets "used" in 4 different calculations. The corner squares are used in 3, and the remaining "middle of the outside box" cells are only used twice. So, for the center number, try to start wiht one that is "close to the median" of the numbers you have to choose from.<br><br>I started with a -1 in the center cell, and then took the extrem ...

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