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Sally is making spinners. She has divided two circles into 3 equal parts.

Now she is going to put 1s, 2s and 3s stickers in the spaces on the circles. But she finds that she only has two 1s stickers, two 2s stickers, and two 3s stickers.

Where should she put the numbers so that when she spins the two spinners the total of 5 comes up as often as possible?

Solution