A PURCHASE OF EGGS.
A grocer ~m.a.de a .purchase of five hundred and twenty-five dozens of egga contained in' -twenty-one cases, all of equal capacity, viz:, fifty dozen, but tho auctioneer, although guaranteeing the full number of eggs as given, could ,not state definitely how many were in the respective boxes, which were all nailed down. Let us asßurae, then, that one-third of "them (marked A) were quite ialif that- half -of the remainder (marked B) each contained exactly onehalf of what an A bos held, whilst the remaining cases (marked C) con-
tamed no eggs whatever. It was desired by the grocer that each of his three branch stores should receive seven boxes just as they stood, so that all the shops would have an equal number of eggs as well as cases, without any of the latter being opened. Now there is more than one way in which this could be done, but if a stipulation bo added that no shop was to receive more than three boxes of one kind, viz., A, B, or C, the problem will be limited to one solution. Can the. reader determine how the boxes should bo apportioned?
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 29
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196A PURCHASE OF EGGS. Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 29
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