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At Global Academy International, the math teachers like to integrate what the students learn in a fun way. For that reason, Mr. Mohammed Abou Hamad prepared a challenging math problem:

Find a word that is one-to-one and onto. Meaning, find a word where no two letters have the same corresponding number and it must contain all the numbers from 0 to 9. Note: If the word has the same letter repeated twice it still qualifies as one-to-one. Example, apple maps to 16625, it contains two 6’s but they're both from the letter "p", so that’s acceptable.

Given the function that maps every letter in the alphabet to a number from 0 to 9 as follows:

The winners are:

Rematerializing (Nadia 9B)

Immortalizing (Shahd 9B)

Marginalization (Zahra 9B)

Replicating (Diala 9E)

Reimplanting (Mahmoud 9E)

Centralizing (Sarah 9E)

Trampolining (Nayira 9C)

Math Bonus Question