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Haybalor's Five Bales Of Hay?

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Imagine you have five bales of hay. For some reason, instead of being weighed individually, they were weighed in all possible combinations of 2: bales 1 and 2,bales 1 and 3, bales 1 and 4, bales 1,and 5, bales 2 and 3, bales 2 and 4, and so on.
The weight of each combination was written down without keeping track of weight marched witch pairs of bales. The weights in kilograms were 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, and 91.
The first thing I did when trying to find this answer is that I tried to do guess and check. At the start I started with forty because that was half of the first answer we needed. So I did 40 plus 40 because that's how I would get to 80, and so B would be 40. Then I did A+C, and 40 was A and that left C to be 41 because I had to get to 81. Then I went on to the next part where I had to do B+C. I already knew that B was 40, and C was 41, but I needed to get 80 but when you add B+C when A is forty then it's wrong. So then I tried to have A start out to be 41. I did A+B, and I was trying to get to 80 so B was 39. Then I did
A+C, and with A being 41 then C would have to be 38. Then I started to notice a pattern. The pattern was that every time A went up one then B,C,D, and E would all go down one. So then I did, B+C, which was
39+38 and that would only get me to 77 when I needed 80.
After weeks of working on the Hay Baler my teacher had put us in a big group because none of us had the answer right to the problem. He assigned each of us to number to start with to be A. My
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Then while we were thinking if we changed one thing then everything would be wrong and it could have been a long process if we didn't think the right numbers that we could

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