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The Power of Christmas

Tuesday 1st December 2015

Noel and Merrie received some Christmas presents. The number of presents Noel received was a power of 3. The number of presents Merrie received was a power of 2. The number of Christmas presents they received were consecutive numbers and less than ten. How many presents did they receive?

You will probably arrive at a first answer fairly quickly but there are actually four different answers. Can you find all four?

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