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SOLVED:This question is based on a Puzzler that was broadcast on the radio program Car Talk (htth (puzzlers): Give me a word with three consecutive double letters. I'll give you a couple of words that almost qualify, but don't. For example, the word committee, c -o-m-mi-t-t-e-e . It would be great except for the 'i' that sneaks in there. Or Mississippi: Mi -s-s-i-s-s-i- p-p -i. If you could take out those i's it would work. But there is a word that has three consecutive pairs of letters and to t

Exercise 9.9. Here's another Car Talk Puzzler you can solve with a search (http://www.cartalk.com/content/puzzlers):"Recently, I had a visit with my mom and we realized that the two digits that make up my age when reversed resulted in her age. For example, if she's 73, I'm 37. We wondered how often this has happened over the years, but we got sidetracked with other topics and we never came up with an answer. When I got home, I figured out that the digits of our ages have been reversible six time

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