LAST WEEK'S SOLUTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 112, 17 November 1928, Page 29

LAST WEEK'S SOLUTIONS.

A Seaside -Bach. —The total cost of roofing being £10 2s 6d it would take nine weeks' rent at 22s 6d per week to recoup the boys. The Figures in Magic.. Squares.— Seven is ,the number from which the sequence should run. Increasing a Frontage.—The. new owner's 60 feet frontage cost him £18 per foot, tho seller having bought the 75 feet frontage previously for £16 per foot. A Flag' With a Red Cross.—lf the cross bo made one foot wide it will cover exactly half the area of tho -flag. Simultaneously.—When As.left foot hits the 188 l-3rd mark it will be simultaneously < with B striking the ground on the. 73 l-3rd mark with his left foot,'and this will-be the first timo after starting that their left feet hit the ground at tho same moment. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. G.M.J. —Not sufficient data for the calculation, the times of tho "takeoff" being omitted in both instances. "Binomial Theorem." —(1) It is an ingenious point, but much' too academic for this column, which aims at mental relaxation rather than strenuous, application. It will, however, be examined with a view of embracing the idea is a simpler form. (2) Sir Isaac Newton.