In the month of May, the mathematician Maria Gaerana was born in Italy. Maria was a gifted child who spoke more than a dozen languages by age nine. Her love, however, was mathematics, and even in a time when women were not educated, she became famous for her published books on mathematics. Solve the following to find out what year she was born.
The two-digit number formed by my tens and units is one greater than the two-digit number formed by my thousands and hundreds digits; their sum is 35.
What year am I? _ _ _ _
To find the digits, you have to divide first then subtract.
1) 35/2 = 17
2) 35-17 =18
Therefore, the year is 1718.
