LAST WEEK'S SOLUTIONS.
An Active Dog.—Walking at double tlj« speed of his friend, O. must have caugKtf up to M. in one hour. The former's rate' being 5 ui.p.h., and having walked for 12* minutes with the dog, the animal, there* fore, must have run for 4S minutes at ]2#i m.p.h., and walked 12 minutes at nia master's pace, covering 11 miles' altogether in the hour. '■■
Not Old Enough.—The little girl -wouKTi become entitled to receive the fur coi^ when sixteen years old, her mother then being 40 years of age.
Strange Adding.—79 plus 5 1-3 equals 84 plus 2-6, thus conforming' to the conditions of the problesi. Without fractions there is no solution, though complex andr improper fractions were excluded, (2)f Four multiplied by 1738 is 6952, thus eacfi digit is used once only.
Tea, Bed, and Breakfast.—Seven persona must have had the three services.
Regaining Its Name.—lf the 7 aw& 10 be repeated instead of tfie SS and 15 withdrawn, the figures^ should be arranged as follows, when. thtjl extraordinary number of 4-figure com* binations in systematic order, all addinS 34, will be revealed as stated:— 1 10 9 14 13 10 -5 6 S 3 16 7 12 11 4 7 Answers to Correspondents. "The Couple's Footrace.——Owing tx^a* large number of letters received, wf% apS lutions of this problem, it is not practice able to reply individually. No one so, far, lias succeeded in solving it, and' the=HßoKp tion will appear next Saturday.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 5
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