CATCHING A TRAIN.
A suburban resident intended to catcha train departing. at oho minute past noon, and left his house in sufficient time to -enable Mm to arrive at the station at noon. An accident to the, car, however, 'compelled him to take a taxi-cab at" a point one mile from the house. The car travolled much i'aster than he had intended in his. own car, for; notwithstanding:'.the. delay caused by the .accident, he arrive.d, at the railway station.: gi-ecigely; at', noon.'.Now, if exactly one and a half hours before the'taxi-cab..started oft" with,the suburbanite^ the time was as many minutes less than half past 10 o'clock as it was then minutes to noon, at what speed did, the' cab travel the four miles to the station, assuming that,, if it had been four furlongg'farther, distant, the taxi, at the seme-rate, of • travelling, would have arrived there ; precisely ,at .the time the train was c due .to leaveviz., .onei minute past noon?
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 29
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161CATCHING A TRAIN. Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 29
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