# Five 4's puzzler

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/five-4s-puzzler/50220>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [June 12, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/five-4s-puzzler/50220 "2010-06-12T15:24:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jt1979](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jt1979/32/1863_2.png) [@jt1979](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jt1979)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/five-4s-puzzler/50220/1 "2010-06-12T15:24:58Z")

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I thought this would take longer to figure out. Did anyone else come up with another way to do it? I got:  
  
  
  
 ((4^4)/4)-(4/.4) = 54

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**Author:** ![jt1979](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jt1979/32/1863_2.png) [@jt1979](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jt1979)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/five-4s-puzzler/50220/2 "2010-06-12T15:33:43Z")

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Oops. First time posting and I didn’t notice that I needed to pick a category. I reposted this in the “show” section.