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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1934, Page 21

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A REVISED VERSION. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man and seven wives. ' Every wife, you understand, Held a suitcase in her hand, And,every ease a number bore From one to seven and no more. , The sum of money each enclosed, Equalled the number thus exposed, Expressed in pounds, it is implied, And by a constant multiplied. The first and last together add ■ I To' find how much the old man had. j The average of all eight was then Just thirteen' pounds and shillings ten. , How much hnd each one of the eight, lls what you have to calculate. I A PROBLEM FOR METEORO- '■'■■ LOGISTS. Mr. S. has a rain gauge of five inches diameter standing on his lawn. One day, during a long spell of dry weatherj some of his friends called on him, but found the house locked ftp and no one at home. They discovered a small mug hanging on a^tap in the garden; it was cylindrical in shape, the depth being four inches and the diameter three inches. Each of these visitors filled the mug at the tap and emptied the conr tents into the rain gauge. Then they left a^pieee of paper under the front door, on which they had written, '' Wo left our cards in the rain gauge,.'! When Mr. S. examined the instrument, he measured out the equivalent of 4.32

inches of rain. The problem is to find how many persons * there were in the: party which called on him. ARMCHAIR PROBLEMS. A certain -wool grower says that the average weight of his bales this year !is expressed in pounds by three consecuive numerals. The highest price received foe the wool makes the return for one-third of this weight equal a sum of money in which the numbers of pounds, shillings, and pence are the same. What is the average weight of his bales, and what is the price, per pound received? "■.-.■■ A neighbour of the gentleman men-' tioned above states that last-year the average weight of his bales showed the same peculiarity, namely, that of being expressed by three consecutive numerals. But then the price per. pound was so much less, that if the weights of the bales had been only four pounds less, the money received for a whole bale would have been the same as that which his friend mentions as having been received for one-third of a bale. What was the price this man received? Mr. Black can drive his ear 8 miles in the time required by Mr. White to travel only 7 miles. These gentlemen had several matters of business to cuss, so they arranged a meeting by driving to a small-town situated on the road between their two respective places of residence. Both "of them left their homes at the same time, and arrived at the place appointed for the meeting, at the same time. After discussing their business, Mr. Black drove straight back to his home, but Mr. White drove to the house of a friend nine miles away. From there he returned to the township and then drove straight home. The result was that the two cars registered the same milage as the amount of their days "travelling. The problem is to find how far the township mentioned is from "the homes of these two gentlemen. A PERPLEXING TIME-TABLE. In order to travel froni ~ Arden ■to Dampley i,t is necessary to change trains at Bleakhquse. The railway stops at Clearwater, and the remainder of the journey has to be made by a service bus. Now trains leave Arden at 6, 8, 10 a.m., and 12, 2, and 4 p.m., and they take two hours on the journey to Bleakhouse. They leave Bleakhouse at 7, 9, 11 a.m. and 1, 3, 5, and 7 p.m., and these also take two hours for the journew to. Clearwater. The buses leaVe Glearwater at 8, 10 a.m., and at 12, 2, 4, 6, and 8 p.m., and this journey also takes two hours. Readers are invited to discover in how many ways can a traveller arrange the whole journey during the interval between 6 a.m., when the first train leaves Arden, and 10 p.m. of the same day, when the.last bus reaches Dampley. The number is much less than might be expeetedj because we have to consider only, thoso trains and buses which the time-table makes it possible for us to catch. SOLUTIONS. Picking Up'Plums.—Two and a quarter miles. Pedestrians.—Seven and a half minutes'. - "Armchair Problems.—(l) Five rides with each ticket; (2) a hundred miles. A Night in Camp.—Nine men and seven women. The men had 76 cubic feet of space, and the women 95. ■ A New Problem.—Note, Nose, Rose, Rise, Wise," Wish, Wash, Cash. The source from which this, problem had its origin was a weak jest about obtaining change for a note. . •■ ■ Crossing a River.—Several solutions can be found, and here is one that is quite satisfactory. JINGO cross, and I returns with the boat: BIPED cross, and E Teturns. CHALK cross, and A returns. Then FAME cross.