536 Puzzles and Curious Problems

228 Answers PUZZLING LEGACIES The answer is $1,464.oo-a little less than $1,500.00. The legacies, in order, were $1,296.00, $7 ...

Answers 229 HORSES AND BULLOCKS We have to solve the indeterminate equation 344x = 265y + 33. This is easy enough if you know ...

230 Answers 24. THE RED DEATH LEAGUE The total amount of subscriptions, reduced to cents, is 300,737, which is the product of 31 ...

Answers 231 THEIR AGES Tom's age was seven years and Mary's thirteen years. MRS. WILSON'S FAMILY The ages must be as follows ...

232 Answers THEIR AGES Thirty years and twelve years, respectively. BROTHER AND SISTER The boy's age was ten and his sister' ...

Answers 233 ROBINSON'S AGE Robinson's age must have been 32, his brother's 34, his sister's 38, and his mother's 52. A DREAML ...

234 Answers zle appeared, gave an inferior solution in which it was necessary to view the hour IX upside down and interpret it a ...

Answers 235 These are the two cases between five and six, and the latter will, of course, be the sooner. WESTMINSTER CLOCK The ...

236 Answers from A. and the man from A. walked 3¥7 miles per hour, while the man from B. walked 4"Ys miles per hour. They both a ...

Answers 237 Anderson ride at the start. Anderson will then ride each of his five stages in % hour and walk each of his four stag ...

238 Answers PICKLEMINSTER TO QUlCKVILLE There are two possible distances that will fit the conditions-21O miles and 144 miles, ...

Answers 239 FIND THE DISTANCE The distance between the two places must have been 18 miles. The meeting points were 10 miles fr ...

240 Answers EXPLORING THE DESERT The nine men, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, all go 40 miles together on the I gal. in their engi ...

Answers 241 fasting, or making him eat his day's ration before starting so as to carry and dump two rations. In the last case he ...

242 Answers SO. MEETING TRAINS As the journey takes five hours, divide the route into five equal distances. Now, when the lady l ...

Answers 243 THE DONKEY CART The journey took IOS,41 hours. Atkins walked 53 ¥.!I miles at the end of his journey, Brown walked ...

244 Answers A QUESTION OF TRANSPORT The car should take four men 12 miles, and drop them 8 miles from their destination; then ...

Answers 245 maining distance to Pig town, so it is clear that from Boghooley to Pigtown took one hour. Five miles beyond Pigtown ...

246 Answers pan eight packets equal 3 OZ., and, therefore, one packet will weigh % oz. The second illustration shows that in the ...

Answers 247 THE FIVE CARDS The number is either 3 9 1 5 7 or 5 7 1 3 9. In either case the product of the two pairs 39 and 57, ...