SOLUTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 16, 18 July 1936, Page 28

SOLUTIONS.

Armchair Problem.—Each child received sixpence.

Word Change.—Meet, melt, belt, best, pest, past, part.

Sisters.—Their ages are 39 and 43, and the sums of money are £79 19s and £83 17s.

A Question of Accuracy.—No, one bby must have given away one less than the others. ■ The interesting part' of this problem is that this is ascertained, although the numbers of sweets received and given away remain unknown.

Ages and Sheep.—lt is easy to see that the numbers of sheep in the first paddock were 47 and 41. The product of these, 1927, is the year in which the elder boy was born. Then the other must have been born in 1921, and therefore the numbers in the second paddock were 17 and 113, because }921 has no other factors.

Housekeeping Money. —The total is necessarily a multiple of 23 pence, and the products of this with any given even number have the property that the sum of their numerals is equal to that given number, except in the cases

lent a fine fervour to the speeches of the parking meter emissaries. Nothing final was"'done,''about -the plan by the supervisors. They referred it- to- the City Attorney for an opinion on its legality. ■ But enough wak brought out at the. meeting to provide- some significant and even amusing aspects of the current pressure to have San Francisco iine its down-town curbs with these parking meter slot machines.

"Three different makes •of meters were set up and. demonstrated and their. virtues extolled by the competing . promoters' agents. Laughter swept the audience over the remarkable coincidence that the. cost quoted for each type of meter was exactly the same—sß dollars apiece. The supervisors contrived to keep fairly straight faces. Incidentally, the ardour of the parking and meter promoters is probably explained by reports that no basic patents exist which cannot be circumvented by other mechanisms and that apparently any one can go into the business arid produce meters at a cost of about eight dollars apiece. That means profit of 50 dollars on each meter installed, or 50,000 for 1000 meters., Clearly a sum worth fighting for. ■..■■•

"After the parking meter boys finished' speaking their pieces, the storm broke, "arid if was made vigorously apparent" that" San ■ Francisco wants to have nothing, to. do with these hick town nickel-catching devices. ■ . ■ .',:..;

"Eepresentatiyes of the California State' Automobile Association - made it plain that parking ■ meters are nothing more than: a revenue producing idea, based on a' further mulcting of the motoring public, that" they accomplish-nothing in the improvement of parking conditions that :cannot be- done,as. well without them ;by .-proper enforcement: of present; regulations, and that, the plan is also illegal in the'light of various high'court decisions. ...,-...". \ . :

"The Motor-car Dealers* Association of 'San Francisco presented \a resolu; tioh denouncing;the -parking meter proposal as simply a plan to impose an additional burden on the motorist, under, the guise of a regulation of doubtful validity/ :;;■-. ■

"Defence :of the: motorist > w.as ■ also voiced, by -representatives,J of,'.groups which.might..probably .profit indirectly from installation'of parking meters." '