AT A CHURCH BAZAAR.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 29

AT A CHURCH BAZAAR.

Neither Jones no? his friond Smith knew what money xhe other possessed v.hen they both entered the hall where a church bazaar was. being held, but they made no secret of the fact that each had one hundred silver coins made up of the three lowest New Zealand currencies, no shillings;.;, however, being included in Smith's money.. Baffles and games absorbed all their money except four shillings that each had-at the finish, the'-articles won- by-, them being handed in at the stalls to. be raffled again. Now if we know hpw Jones spent his mone,y it will not be difficult to calculate how much each of them started with, the total sum being seven pounds nine and ninepenee. At the first stall Jones spent three shillings more than half he had, at the second he spent half as much as he then had, plus half a sovereign and two threepenny pieces he had received in change, and at the two last stalls he spent two and sixpence more than' half of what he had* when!leavings the second stall, finishing upjwittr a' balance of four shillings as stated. ' How much did each, spend and-how-was-Smith's hundred coins made up if he took with him the least, possible number of threepenny pieces?- ■