If you wrote the numbers from 1-8, and it equals to three, how do you make a statement true if you can't change the 3 but you could connect two or more numbers to make the state ment true if you also can only do subtraction? Rules: 1. You have to use this equation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 = 3. 2. You can put together some numbers. 3. You have to do only subtraction. Hint: Here is the equation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 = 3.