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Answers to Extra Challenges
  1. Several answers are acceptable. If the student includes the reverses of all the combinations, there are eight (1+6, 6+1, 2+5, 5+2, 3+4, 4+3, 7+0, 0+7). If they do not show reverses, then there are four combinations (1+6, 2+5, 3+4, 7+0).
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  2. Children should be able to find several ways to make fourteen using three addends. For example, 4+5+5.
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  3. Some children might say that they saw a pattern of adding three more rooms for each floor. Others may say they added three 14 times. Here are the answers for every floor:

    three floors = 9 rooms
    four floors = 12 rooms
    five floors = 15 rooms
    six floors = 18 rooms
    seven floors = 21 rooms
    eight floors = 24 rooms
    nine floors = 27 rooms
    ten floors = 30 rooms
    11 floors = 33 rooms
    12 floors = 36 rooms
    13 floors = 39 rooms
    14 floors = 42 rooms

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