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ah but it is unclear, you are assuming that they have to be rounded when the problem in fact says nothing of the sort.
each hint does lead you to that assumption except the last one.
Hrm, come to think of it, if one wanted to, one could probably come up with 3 numbers which when multiplied by each other were exactly 36, and who were themselves decimal numbers, and who added to a whole number, it would probably take a considerable amount of time to ponder such a solution but it no doubt exists.
and yes it is a fun riddle, but i dont think the riddle has a real answer as it was written. I assume the original riddle was less ambiguous and so had some assumptions that it listed as you being allowed to make.
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