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brelovesweasleys 
"Okay, i think i can do this, just give me a moment..." As Rae took out a quill and some parchment and tried to think.
Rae looked at this... she had NO IDEA if she was doing this right... She slid her parchment over to Abigail "I think i did this wrong..."
Hmmm... Abby looked over the parchment that Rae pushed over to her.
"I think you'll want to recheck your math on most of these," she said, pointing to her figures.
"See, here with my first name. A-B-I-G-A-I-L would be this in numbers." Quote:
1 + 2 + 9 + 7 + 1 + 9 + 12
"And guess what?" Abby said, grinning. She pointed to Rae's notes.
"You have exactly that written down! Which means you got this far completely right." Yayz!
"However," Abby continued,
"you put down 37 as the sum of all these numbers. Actually, the real answer is 41." Quote:
1 + 2 = 3 + 9 = 12 + 7 = 19 + 1 = 20 + 9 = 29 + 12 = 41
Abby underlined the sum of all the numbers.
"Okay, so you'll see that our sum has two digits; four and one. We need to reduce this so that it's only one digit," she explained.
"We do this by separating the digits and adding them together. Like this." "There!" Abby said, pointing to the five.
"That's the answer we're looking for. Now, you have to follow the same process with my middle name and my last name. Understand?" She pushed the parchment back over to Rae.
"You do that and then show me the three numbers when you're done. We've just done the first one, so all you need to do is find the second and third. Let me know when you're finished."