# Where is detective Tom hiding?

Two detectives - Tom and Mark, are solving a murder mystery. They suspect that the murderer (or rather, the one who ordered the murder) is a very popular politician, Sean. So, they are secretly investigating the case.

One day, Mark receives this SMS on his phone, from Tom:

Sean knows us. I'm Hiding. Open your door.

Mark opens his door, and finds a bag, full of dairy items and groceries. He searches the bag, and finds a notebook. The notebook is all new, and only one page has been written upon.

The page looks like the maths homework of a 7-year old student. It contains the following text:

BASIC MathematIcs

8+0=8
6/6=1
7-3=4
8x2=16
6+8=14
8-3=5
3+2=5
7-2=5
7x9=63
8/4=2
6+9=15
7-6=1
3-2=1
4x8=32
4+8=12
5+2=7

So, where is Tom hiding, and how did Mark know this?

P.S. This is my first puzzle on this site, and I am not very familiar with tags. So please correct the tags if you think I missed something

• Welcome to Puzzling! This seems like a pretty good puzzle, and you got the tags perfect. I hope I see you around here more! c: – Deusovi Apr 29 '16 at 13:13
• Welcome; a nice start, clear, concise and interesting. – Jonathan Allan Apr 29 '16 at 13:14
• Thanks! I was used to reading the puzzles here. So today I decided to give you all a puzzle! – dryairship Apr 29 '16 at 13:14

P.Bird's Hotel, room number 004

Explanation:

We look at the left side of equation as a 2-digit numbers (80,66,73,...).

Each of these numbers are the decimal code of Ascii character.

We get the text "PBIRDS HOTEL 004".

Ascii Table

• Yes you are right! But there was one more hint in the line - "BASIC MathematIcs". If you exclude the camel-case characters, the rest of the capitals can be arranged to form ASCII. – dryairship Apr 30 '16 at 11:26