Given four numbers 3, 3, 8, 8 and four arithmetic + - * /, make up 24 [closed]

Question

You should use each number only once, and you can specify the calculation priority with ().

should we include all the numerical operators? in that case we have four numbers and only three places where we can include the operators.
Do we have to use all numbers? If not, note that $3 \cdot 8 = 24$...

zdd · Answer 1 · 2012-10-02 13:20:47Z

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$$\frac{8}{3-\frac{8}{3}}=24$$

(and without adding numbers this time!)

edited Oct 2 '12 at 13:20

zdd
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answered Oct 2 '12 at 12:57

user39572

	You win this time! – zdd Oct 2 '12 at 12:58
	This shape of answer is often hard to see. – Ross Millikan Oct 2 '12 at 12:59
	Hi zdd, how do you derive this kind of answer? I've asked the question at math.stackexchange.com/questions/333947/… – Fidel Mar 18 at 19:45

closed as too localized by Jasper Loy, Avatar, J. M., Matt N., Norbert Oct 2 '12 at 17:28