LAST WEEK'S SOLUTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 20

LAST WEEK'S SOLUTIONS.

.: There and Back.—As the average rate of travelling there and back was only three miles an hour and not four, as perhaps some readers determined, the distance from the anchorage direct' to the buoy must have been twelve miles. A Caterer's Bill.—There must have been thirty-six persons who eat down to luncheon, nine of whom were guests of the company. The bill of £16 4s was therefore met by each host paying 12s instead of 9s, if everybody had shared. ■ Without a Theodolite.—The areas of the north and south triangular sections, being twelve and thirteen square chains respectively, the intervening block must have been fourteen and two-fifths acres. The whole square wouia thus be sixteen and nine-tenths acres (169 square chains). A. Sheep Episode.—MA. and MB. for drover's fees, £1 10?; M'A;-and MB proportionate loss of dead sheep, 9stotal &1 19s. Less two-thirds the value of two skins 14s, 9s 4d; amount due by MA. to MB., £1 9s Sd. A Paradox Explained.—The distance from post to post is not the distance ±rom base to baso measured along the ground, as the. suggested diagram makes evident. A person sitting on a chair m a room is no further away from a fixed object wheu he stands on thq chair.