MORE AMUSING- THAN STRENUOUS.
X Here is a little .problem : r solvable ;-by. elementary .arithmetic or ;by,indeterminate equation,^ though - tho "reader.; ; is recommended to adopt neither'miethod, but'to..reach-.tlie;"olutibn;:by!trial9' (by, jyay,:of a :change), for,'by so,,doing;'he will, probably derive a' .fuller^.measure of ;intellectual,)amusement..: A ; man bought a number. of articles Vof,; tirso. .different.kinds,: and .at three;different jiricesi 'spending ; b'he hundred'and; fifty pounds in all, purchasing -ten • dozen of one\kindj? twenty-eight Vand, a'.::;h'al£ j pt another (not dozens), raid onQ-eighth' of,a,'dozen- of the! third variety.. ;.Whkt wore, the; respective prices', of ;. the" three kinds;"pf jnierchandi^c if o'ne'ca'ch'of; the threorrinyolyed' ■: an -oxpenditure y ot:- 'sir pounds one shilling? • ; '■..'.■ t.■ X':!-\:-<' y': ''i V,-
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 27
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MORE AMUSING- THAN STRENUOUS.
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 27
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