SOLUTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 28

SOLUTIONS

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Page.—lt is either 284 or 482.

■ Books-—One book for 45,. two for 7s, six for 225. A purchaser of. two gets them at 3s 6d, but if he takes six he pays 3s Bd. Thus we know: that .the minimum allowed was 3s 6d.

Boarders. —Obviously there were 3 persons before D and E and the clue is that there must have.been 3 after them, making 8 altogether. Then if X be the share taken by A we.have, the armchair equation: 8x plus 7 equals 13, from which x equals 5. F is the sixth man, and his share is three quarters plus five quarters, that is, two whole cakes.- .'■ . . . .

Argumentative Problem. —Two men said L was second. If this is untrue, then.B was third and D'fourth. But if D was fourth, B was first, so that lie was both first and third, which is nonsense. Thus we have for a start that L really was second,' from which it follows that D was not fourth, and therefore B was first. Hence P was not first, and C must have been fourth. Then D is the only horse not accounted for, and he must have been third.