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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 21

descendants up to the time that the original cow is ten years of age I As the question makes it the "possible," number, the reader will, of course, take it for granted jthat, all;the calves are heifers, ;ana that' there are not any deaths.'.- ,' -; t ■■. LAST WEEK'S SOLUTIONS. Buying Wool. As each .bought, different quantities and spent similar Bums the largest number of buyers is "nine. ■ On the Draught-board. Seven moves ate the fewest possible under the conditions.stated; Tor the Armclialr. ■ 1.-13 x 483 equals 5796 aM 4 X 1963 equals 7852. 2. Ten at five, ten at one, and eighty at sixpence. A~~ Useful -Problem. Fifty rails at twelve feet each, six hundred feet,.which is five rails (sixty feet) less than ten chains. "-Forty-nine rails were used, and these, enclosed in the manner prescribed, made exactly nineteen square yards less than, half > an acre in area. Four Married Couples. Eliza O'Grady, Bridget Miller, Janet Hobbs, and Mary McTavish. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "Puxzled." —lt is precisely the same thing reversed, and if you take_ the figures in that way its simplicity will be its chief feature. A.B.C. —Problems of the kind referred to are frequently found in more fanciful forms, but the arithmetic of them varies very little. ' 'Two Pointer.' '—Thanks for offer, arid ... if you send details a calculation will be made in the way desired.; . "Magic"—Hardly suitable without an elaborate diagram, but the description could be perhaps put into a form that would make an illustration unnecessary. Thanks. C.J.R. —This issue.

"Area" —The land cannot, be divided in the manner suggested to conform with the conditions of the testator you quote. ' ■ B.C.—Thanks for interesting letter. F.G.A.S. —Appreciated. Correspondence should be addressed care of P.O. Bos 1023.